DISASTERS

Princess Diana would have turned 50, if she were alive, on July 1, 2011. The Newsweek July 4 issue features the image of an aged Diana (done digitally), along with her daughter-in-law Catherine Middleton.

The residents of Bugarach, a small hamlet in southern France, are both shocked and perturbed by the rising influx of doomsday believers who are convinced that their tiny town is the only place that will survive the 2012 judgment day.

The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is headed to a Nebraska nuclear power plant where floodwaters breached a levee and forced engineers to switch to backup power.

Thousands of houses got swallowed up by the flooding of Souris River, while the rapidly rising waters forced emergency evacuation of residents of Minot, North Dakota, on Sunday.

Family Radio President Harold Camping will no longer be able to deliver his sermons over radio waves and reach out to millions of people worldwide because his popular daily Open Forum show is shutting down for good.

Pop superstar Lady Gaga visited Japan for a charity concert to raise funds for victims of the March 11 earthquake and Tsunami in the country.

Within view of the runway at Besovets airport in northern Russia, a passenger jet crashed to the ground, killing 44 of the 52 people on board.

Three months have passed since the deadliest tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. It was announced as the strongest ever in recorded history of geological disasters. Check out photos of Japan’s amazing recovery that took place after the catastrophic event.

South Pacific island country once had 2nd highest per-capita GDP in the world; today, 90% are unemployed and most live on less than 100 dollars a week

Family Radio president Harold Camping, who famously predicted that about 200 million people will Rapture on May 21 and the world will be destroyed five months later, on Thursday night suffered a stroke which has affected his ability to speak.

Government officials from nearly 30 nuclear powered countries called for safety tests on Tuesday, after the disaster at Fukushima plant sparked concern over safety standards.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is exploring a presidential bid, invited the nation's governors to a prayer conference with a declaration that hope for America lies in heaven, and we will find it on our knees.

Apple had kept the market clueless by not revealing the details of ‘the upcoming cloud service offering’, since the announcement of unveiling Lion, iOS 5 and the iCloud.

U.S. employers added only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest amount in eight months while the unemployment rate rose to 9.1, according to the Labor Department.

The Yemeni saga of unrest continues with forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opening fire at protestors demanding an end to his three-decade-old rule in a conflict that has brought the state to the brink of a civil war, a Reuters report said on Friday.

The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially started on Wednesday with forecasters at the NOAA predicting an above-average year for named storms in the Atlantic basin. But, don't let that deter your summer plans. Here's some tips for travel and hurricane preparedness.

Cities devastated by tornadoes have a long road ahead, but rebuilding can create jobs

Australia’s economy shrank by 1.2 percent in the first quarter of this year -- the sharpest quarterly drop in twenty years -- due largely to the devastating floods that swept across parts of the country late last year.

The persistent drought that has been affecting many southern China regions, kept the country's National Meteorological Center, maintaining its Yellow Alert high, say reports.

Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.

On the first day of the G8 Summit, the presidents of the European Commission and council and the leaders of the Group of Eight countries seemed primary to be focusing on the political situation in Middle East and North Africa, the debt crisis within EU and Japan's post-quake reconstruction, reported news.xinhuanet.com on Friday.