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Hailstorms in China caused havoc, killing 29 people from March to April 20 and destroying various houses, said statistics released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater, say scientists.

Two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one of the worst in history, BP reached settlements to resolve billions of dollars of claims and pleaded for a long delay in any trial over remaining disputes arising from the disaster.

General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser.

Vegetables irrigated with sewage effluent carry health risks

Conditions are tough for displaced women in Jaar, Yemen.

Some glaciers on Asia's Karakoram mountains, which is home to K2, are defying the global trend and getting thicker, a new study has claimed.

Chronic drought means some families in Kayes have nothing left to share

People have died in an Oklahoma storm, in which a tornado touched down.

Hawaii is to allow the erection of a biofuel refinery in order to get the country out of imported fuel purchases.