Super Typhoon Usagi Barrels Toward Taiwan and China
Sept. 20, 2013 Satellite image of Usagi captured on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 (NOAA) TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - The most powerful typhoon of the year approached the northern Philippines and southern Taiwan on...
View ArticleDeadly Manuel Continues to Slam Mexico
Sept. 20, 2013 Above, people stranded in Acapulco by flooding due to Manuel. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez) As Acapulco cleans up after severe and deadly flooding, Manuel will continue to bring heavy...
View ArticleReturning Coloradans Find Sickening Flood Damage
Sept. 20, 2013 Dirk Huntington checks on a friend's flood-damaged trailer at the River Bend Mobile Home Park in Lyons, Colo., on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider) LYONS, Colo. (AP) -...
View ArticlePhotos: The Biggest Rubber Duck You've Ever Seen
Ashley Pon/Getty Images 1 of 10 Thousands of people flocked to Glory Pier in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Thursday, Sept. 19, to see a 59-foot-tall yellow rubber duck created by Dutch conceptual artist...
View ArticleMexico Looks for Landslide Victims, Chopper
Updated Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 at 5:40 p.m. ET Structures lay in ruins at the site of a landslide in the village of La Pintada, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Mexico's Secretary of the...
View ArticleTyphoon Has Killed 2; 'Severe Threat' to Hong Kong
Updated 12:30 a.m. ET, Sept. 21, 2013 A three-wheeled vehicle lies on its side after being blown over by winds from typhoon Usagi in the town of Hengtsun in China's southeast Pingtung county on Sept....
View ArticleColorado on Alert for More Spills in Flooded Oilfields
Sept. 20, 2013 Oil workers try to lift a container of condensate -- a mix of oil and water that is pumped out of the ground -- storage tank. The massive tank was knocked over by floodwaters from the...
View ArticleDeath Toll, Anger Rise in Post-Storm Mexico
Updated 6:15 p.m. ET, Sept. 20, 2013 Thousands were stranded when Tropical Storm Manuel hit. Above, frustrated tourists and locals wait for the highway to open in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco,...
View ArticleTracking Hurricanes: The Latest Technology
Sept. 21, 2013 Above, the Global Hawk drone is equipped with microwave and radar instruments inside the round nose, and along the aircraft's underbelly. (Denise Chow/LiveScience) Editor's Note: In this...
View ArticleFlying High at the 2013 Oktoberfest
In this Oktoberfest 2013 photo, revelers enjoy a carnival ride that lifts them skyward at an angle that looks like they could reach out and touch St. Paul's Church in Munich. (The elaborate Gothic...
View ArticleHong Kong Braces for Arrival of Powerful Typhoon
Updated Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, at 11:53 p.m. ET HONG KONG (AP) - The year's most powerful typhoon had Hong Kong in its crosshairs on Sunday after sweeping past the Philippines and Taiwan and...
View ArticlePowerful Typhoon Strikes Southern China; 21 Dead
Updated Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at 12 a.m. ET A motorist tries to get round a fallen tree blocking a road in Shantou, in southern China's Guangdong province on September 22, 2013, as Typhoon Usagi...
View ArticleRescuers Dig in Mud, Rain for Dead in Mexico Slide
Sept. 22, 2013 Soldiers search through mud and rubble for bodies, victims of a landslide in the town of La Pintada, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. (AP) LA PINTADA, Mexico (AP) - Fourteen hours per...
View ArticleFirst Official Day of Autumn Arrives
Sept. 22, 2013 The ideal, technicolor-leaf autumn day is on its way to some parts of the U.S. (Getty) Many have been marking their calendars for the first official day of autumn. Finally, Sept. 22 has...
View ArticleVine Videos Capture the Fury of Typhoon Usagi
Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 Typhoon Usagi slammed into mainland China on Sunday with sustained winds of 109 mph. It was expected to hit Hong Kong but shifted course, skirting north of of the former British...
View ArticlePhotos: See Typhoon Usagi Wreaking Havoc
AP/NOAA 1 of 10 This satellite image of Typhoon Usagi was taken at 4:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 20, 2013. The most powerful typhoon of the year swept through the Luzon Strait separating the Philippines and...
View ArticleBuilders, Soldiers Hustle to Reconnect Colo. Towns
Sept. 22, 2013 A guardrail hangs away from a closed canyon road, which is washed out in places by recent flooding, west of Boulder, Colo., Friday Sept. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) LONGMONT,...
View ArticleTyphoon Blows Into China; Storms Kill 47 in Asia
A resident wades through chest-deep floodwaters along a street while his neighbors paddle an improvised life raft in Manila on September 23, 2013, after torrential rains pounded Luzon island, worsened...
View ArticleColorado Hurries to Repair Flood-Damaged Roads
A guardrail hangs away from a closed canyon road, which links Boulder with the mountain town of Nederland, and which is washed out in places by recent flooding, up Boulder Canyon, west of Boulder,...
View ArticleSurf Industry Hopes Surf Parks Will Expand Sport
A surfer rides the machine-made wave at Wavehouse San Diego on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Some of surfing's biggest names aren't just...
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