| Sat, 19 May 2012 Weather Channel expert to head hurricane center
| MIAMI - Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday. The promotion to director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami fulfills... | Here is my Forecast for the Summer and the 2012 Tropical Season
| Last summer a large section of the country east of the Rockies experienced a warmer than normal summer. There was scorching heat in the Southern Plains with the record warmest summer season ever for New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The southern half of the c... | Appreciating our military personnelEditorial
| In March 2011 Allied nations resolved to stop the troops of Libya's tyrant Moammar Gadhafi from slaughtering civilians in his desperate bid to hold onto power. | Active-duty and reserve Air Force personnel serving at MacDill Air Force Base immediately were mobilized a... | Heat safety awareness: time to prep for high temps
| NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the National Weather Service have declared May 25, Heat Safety Awareness Day. Already this year two children in Missouri and Texas have died from hyperthermia after being left in vehicles. Deaths related to he... | Refugee Farmers Find Solace in a Floodplain
| BURLINGTON, Vt. — Unpredictability has been a life companion for Clothilde Ntahomvukiye and her fellow refugee farmers from Burundi, who were out clearing stubborn hillocks of weeds and dandelions with hand hoes the other day in a spring drizzle. Connect With Us... | Thousands flee DR Congo violence
| Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. | Many of the refugees have headed to neighbouring... | High-flyers turn hunger strikers after Dubai desert dream ends in jail
| Safi Qurashi, once a millionaire British property magnate, is one of around 20 expats who have gone nearly a month without food in Al Awir Prison in the hope that their protest will bring about a change in laws that criminalise the bouncing of a cheque. | With a sente... | President quick to overturn ban on gay acts
| Malawi faced international condemnation in 2010 for the conviction and 14-year prison sentences given to two men who were arrested after celebrating their engagement and were charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency. | The previous President, Bingu wa Mutharika... | |
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