Geography of the United States

Hurricane Dorian has gained fearsome new muscle as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, bearing down on the northwestern Bahamas early on Aug. 31 en route to Florida's east coast.

The United States and Mexico reached a deal on June 7 to avert a tariff war, with Mexico pledging to take "strong measures" to contain the migration of mostly Central Americans crossing the southern U.S. border, a surge in recent months that has overwhelmed U.S. resources.

Nearly 7700 US flights were canceled or postponed yesterday due to a winter storm.

Hundreds of flights have been hit at the busy international airports of New York and Chicago.

The worst is the situation at New York's La Guardia International Airport, where 497 flights were canceled and 89 flights were postponed, the BNR reported.

Schools across Turkey were closed on Jan. 8 due to heavy snowfall and ice, according officials.

Tension mounted as hundreds of Central American migrants massed at a Mexican border town headed on Thursday for a bridge crossing to the United States as President Donald Trump renewed his threats to repel them, reported AFP.

The administrative and academic leadership of the National Technical University of Athens (formerly the Athens Polytechnic) bears an enormous amount of responsibility for failing to safeguard the institution's property.

Athens is on the rise as a tourist destination and some observers have even ventured to refer to the Greek capital as the "Berlin of our time."

And this is because Athens has evolved into a city exuding character and dynamism, with a range of alternative options.

This change is primarily due to the diligent efforts of the private sector, given the state's shortcomings.

Rumors about a "four-meter-long snake that can eat a human" have stirred panic in a northern Turkish village.

MORE than 200,000 people in Canada's capital region of Ottawa were without power on Saturday and two people were critically injured after a powerful tornado ripped apart dozens of homes and threw cars into the air.

Deadly storm Florence have drenched North Carolina with more downpours, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to the bursting point.