The Meteorological Agency issued a severe-weather warning for Miyagi Prefecture early Friday morning and warned of further mudslides and flooding across eastern Japan as rain clouds shifted north.

Bangladesh is going ahead with an ambitious plan to reclaim land from the sea to help relocate people who have lost their homes to sea level rise, erosion and extreme weather.

Typhoon Etau made landfall Wednesday morning on the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. The weather agency warned of mudslides, flooding and high winds and waves.

Jerusalem recorded its worst air pollution levels ever, at 173 times normal levels. In some other parts of the country, air pollution levels were at their worst for 75 years.

Tropical Depression Eight of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season has formed east-southeast of Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.

A heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, killing two people and hospitalising hundreds in Lebanon and disrupting fighting and air strikes in neighbouring Syria.

The busy Atlantic hurricane seasons of recent decades may be coming to an end, according to a new and controversial study.

Members of the public are to be given the opportunity to name storms affecting the UK and Ireland.

CHANGSHA - More than 16,000 people were evacuated as rainstorms lashed parts of central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said on Sunday.