Description
Added on the 16/10/2014 13:49:56 - Copyright : AFP EN
Images show the rubble of houses destroyed in the 5.6-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 132 people in Nepal. The quake hit the far west of the Himalayan country and was measured by the US Geological Survey at just 18 kilometres (11 miles) deep. IMAGES
Heavy seas batter Stonehaven harbour as Storm Babet hits Scotland's east coast. The images come as a woman died being swept into a river and families were trapped in flooded homes in Scotland. Britain's Met Office has put parts of Dundee and Aberdeenshire under a red weather warning, that will be in place until midday Friday. IMAGES
The eastern Libyan city of Derna attemps to clear huge piles of debris that litter areas devastated in last week's deadly floods. Thousand were killed and least 40,000 people have been displaced across the north east of the country. IMAGES
The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warns. "The death toll is huge, it might reach thousands," says Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis. SOUNDBITE
New York governor Kathy Hochul tells reporters the dangerous snow, wind and frigid temperatures are far from over. It is "way too early to say this is at its completion," Hochul says of the colossal winter blizzard which has has killed at least 25 people in western New York. SOUNDBITE
Italian firefighters and other emergency services evacuate residents fom the town of Senigallia after at least seven people died when violent storms in the centre of the country flooded roads and homes. The Corriere della Sera newspaper said about 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain fell in two hours -- about the quantity normally recorded in six months in this zone. IMAGES