Reuters - Winter will be warmer than normal for much of the central United States, but government forecasters said on Thursday this season's weather for the rest of the country will be particularly hard to predict.
AP - Weather around the U.S.A.
AFP - Flash floods killed a woman and forced evacuations as torrential rain drenched Australia's battered city of Brisbane Thursday just days after it was hit by a violent storm, officials said.
AFP - The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a close after producing 16 storms, including eight hurricanes, and inflicting record damage in the United States, a report by university researchers said on Wednesday.
AP - A powerful earthquake jolted eastern Indonesia on Monday, killing at least four people, damaging hundreds of homes and briefly triggering a region-wide tsunami warning, officials said as they surveyed the damage.
Reuters - A tropical storm hit central Vietnam on Monday, threatening severe floods, landslides and substantial damage to coffee output from the world's second-largest producer of the crop.
Reuters - A river in Ethiopia's highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday.
AFP - A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, killing four people, toppling homes and triggering tsunami warnings that sparked widespread panic.
Reuters - A powerful earthquake struck an area off Indonesia's northern Sulawesi early on Monday, killing at least four people and injuring nearly 60 after hundreds of houses collapsed, a disaster official said.
AP - Several inches of snow was forecast for the Great Lakes region and parts of the Northeast on Friday, while lesser amounts were expected in New England, the mid-Atlantic and the northern Plains.
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