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Mexican residents in Escuinapa wake up to damaged streets and fallen trees after Hurricane Willa lashed the Pacific coast with powerful winds and heavy rain before weakening to a tropical depression as it moved inland. IMAGES
Volunteers helped residents of Houston's flooded Kingwood neighbourhood and their pets to safety as waters continue to rise. Due to the lack of police and fire department boats, some civilians used their personal boats to rescue fellow residents to help them leave the Kingwood neighbourhood, which is reportedly one of the most affected neighbourhoods in the area.
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Aerial footage shows the Fiesta Americana Villas hotel on Acapulco's seafront severely damaged by Hurricane Otis, which caused at least 27 deaths as it lashed the Mexican resort city. IMAGES
Hurricane Otis leaves a trail of destruction in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco with damaged buildings, fallen trees and vehicles after coming ashore overnight as a Category 5 storm. IMAGES
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is on his way to Acapulco with an official convoy heading for the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, after a powerful hurricane left a trail of destruction and tourists stranded. IMAGES