The "sweeping sandstorm," as the Dallas Morning News called it, began shortly after 4 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. A gale-like ...

A MASSIVE £1.2m repair job was needed on a Weymouth pier that was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987. The storm, on the evening of October 15, 1987, hit the south of England and particularly badly.

Cyclone Ditwah is expected to move nearly northwards along the north Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts and weaken further into a depression by Monday noon.

IMD has said that Cyclonic Storm Ditwah is expected to approach the southwest Bay of Bengal near the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts by Nov. 30.

Rains triggered by Cyclone Ditwah continued in several parts of Tamil Nadu as it is expected to move parallel to the ...

Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc in Sri Lanka, killing over 120, with at least 130 others missing, and causing massive ...

Thanksgiving 1950 fell on November 23. On November 25 -- Saturday -- a wild hurricane savaged our shorefront, from Fort ...

A ship helmed by "Captain Santa" and loaded down with Christmas trees for Chicago sank in Lake Michigan more than a century ...

In Sutter County, just north of Sacramento, a 71-year-old died Friday afternoon when his vehicle was swept off a flooded bridge as he tried to receive a package delivery. By the time emergency crews ...

Today in History for Dec. 3: In 1170, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, returned to England after six years of exile in France. He would be martyred on Dec. 29 -- killed by soldiers sent by his ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

Over 2,000 people gathered for the 50th anniversary commemorating the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerad in 1975 at Split Rock Lighthouse.