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Main stock exchanges Nasdaq, NYSE and BATS expect to open trading on Monday as usual despite Hurricane Irene, although a final decision, especially on opening the Big Board floor, is yet to come.

Airlines are scrapping more than 9,000 flights this weekend from North Carolina to Boston.

Authorities posted warnings for Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as forecasters predicted Tropical Storm Irene would strengthen into a hurricane Monday.

A tropical storm has regained hurricane strength as it powers towards Haiti, threatening earthquake survivors.

Powerful Hurricane Karl is bringing torrents of rain and fierce winds to the Mexico coast as the eye of the storm makes landfall.

As communities in south and central Texas kept an eye on rivers rising due to torrential rain from Hermine, a new tropical storm formed on Wednesday in the deep Atlantic.

A weakened hurricane Earl skirts past North Carolina's Outer Banks and continues up the US east coast as a "category two" storm.

Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina's fragile chain of barrier islands.

As Hurricane Earl continues to spin toward the East Coast, authorities in North Carolina are ordering more people to get out of the way.

Forecast to gain "major" Category 3 status, Hurricane Earl was bearing down on the northern Leeward Islands Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.