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More than 800 dead in Pakistan floods
More than 800 people in Pakistan and dozens more in Afghanistan have been killed in floods that have lashed the region for days, officials said Saturday.

Russia sends army to battle wildfires

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tours the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, on Friday. Putin on Friday visited the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, where all 341 houses have burned to the ground, and kissed the cheek of one woman who was sobbing.Russia sent the army on Saturday to battle wildfires that have killed at least 28 people and were threatening dozens of towns and villages. Thick smoke and ash slowed firefighting efforts and thousands of people were being evacuated.


Giant South Dakota hailstone breaks US records

This photo taken July 24, 2010 provided by the NOAA National Weather Service shows a hailstone that was found by a ranch hand in Vivian, S.D., on June 23, 2010. The hailstone has set U.S records. It measured 8 inches in diameter and weighed 1 pound, 15 ounces. The previous record for diameter was 7 inches for a hailstone found in Aurora, Neb., in 2003. The previous record for weight was 1.67 pounds for a stone in Coffeyville, Kan., in 1970. (AP Photo/National Weather Service)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a giant hailstone that fell in central South Dakota has broken U.S. records, even though the man who found it says it melted somewhat while waiting to be evaluated.


South bakes, humidity feels like 100-plus degrees

Children take a break from the heat at the fountain in the Waterfront Park in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, July 30, 2010. Friday was the eleventh straight day a heat advisory or excessive heat warning was issued for the South Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)Heat advisories were posted from the Carolinas to the Great Plains as the South continued to roast Friday under temperatures and humidity that made beaches feel more like bakeries.


China floods send chemical bins into river

In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, chemical barrels float on the Songhua River after they were washed away by the flood in Jilin city in northeast China's Jilin province. Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege areas of the country. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **The water supply was safe in a northeastern China city after more than 3,000 containers of toxic chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods in a decade in the country, an official said Thursday.


Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee

Grass burns from the severe heat at the Khodynskoe pole aviation museum in Moscow on July 29. The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow, a leading forecaster said, adding that the unprecedentedly long heatwave could be interrupted tomorrow. Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.


Video: A national look at the next 3 days

Three-day forecast for the entire US, updated each morning and afternoon. (Other)Three-day forecast for the entire US, updated each morning and afternoon. (Other)


Sizzling Moscow shrouded in polluting smog

Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral , background center, is slightly seen through a smog covering Moscow, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A heat wave has  hit central Russia breaking temperature records going higher than 30 C (86 F) for four weeks breaking all records for the last 130 years and  smoke from burning forests around Moscow has reached the city. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)A cloud of harmful smog has enveloped Moscow, raising airborne pollutants to four times the norm, officials said Wednesday, and prompting doctors to urge residents to stay indoors as the city swelters in a record heat wave.


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