Death Toll, Natural Disaster | featured news

The houses lie vacant with their triangular rooftops peeking through the brown, murky water. Abandoned cars dot impassable highways, while rotting furniture floats through city streets.

Rescuers spread out Sunday to scour neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after storms that spawned multiple tornadoes sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children.

The death toll from massive avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul soared to 157, as hundreds more remained trapped ...

The death toll from the Haiti quake could be 230,000, the government says - close to the number killed in the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the quake-ravaged heart of this tragic land ...

At least 76 people have died in flooding and mudslides in Brazil's three largest states over the past four days, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported on Sunday.