Ahmedabad: Roar of wind, swaying trees and huge billboards fluttering like kites caught in strong breeze brought last weekend to a close. If Friday night was cool with gusts of wind, Saturday night was a stormy affair with light drizzle in many parts of the city.

Washington: A massive snowstorm ravaged the eastern United States on early Monday, snapping power lines, closing schools and snarling the morning commute amid freezing temperatures from the deep South to Maine.

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At least 15 people were killed when a massive tornado ripped across the midwestern state of Oklahoma, flattening homes and upending cars, local media reported on Wednesday.

OSLO - Arctic storms could worsen because of global warming in a threat to possible new businesses such as oil and gas exploration, fisheries or shipping, a study showed on Wednesday.

Crews were working to restore electricity to nearly 200,000 Michigan homes and businesses early Monday, a day after strong winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines, while residents in parts of the Northwest braced for another winter storm.

New York: The northeastern United States was recovering from a major ice storm that left as many as one million people without power and sent Massachussetts scrambling for federal emergency aid, officials said.

Cyclone-like storms ripped across the southeast corner of Australia's tropical state Queensland, killing one man, destroying houses and leaving more than 230,000 homes and businesses without power, authorities said on Monday.

The storms cut a path of destruction on Sunday night from the state capital Brisbane to the tourist havens of the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.