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Fourteen people have died and four are missing due to torrential rain according to the Saudi Civil Defense General Directorate.
Fourteen people have died and four are missing due to torrential rain according to the Saudi Civil Defense General Directorate.
From Monday night until midday Tuesday, Saudi authorities received more than 4,213 reports from across the kingdom of accidents resulting from torrential rainfall.
Classes have been suspended in affected areas of the country.
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The cliff fall happened overnight at St Oswald's Bay
The cliff fall happened overnight at St Oswald's Bay
Portland Coastguard said the cliff fall happened overnight at St Oswald's Bay, east of Durdle Door.
A coastguard spokesman said: "It is huge - a massive fall has taken out part of the cliff. It is rather extraordinary."
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Temperatures in excess of 30 degrees centigrade have been reported in Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Albania, while citizens are advised not to stay in the sun for prolonged periods of time.
"This is certainly one of the hottest April since measurements are being taken," Nedeljko Todorović of Serbia's Hydro-Meteorological Service (RHMZ) said.
[Google translation] An unprecedented cloud of flies almost buried in swarms the city of Kraljevo. It is a natural phenomenon, according to the Veterinary Inspection.
Kraljevo tonight was engulfed by an unprecedented cloud of flies that are in swarms, with the first dusk, almost buried the entire city.
Miodrag Rajkovic of the Veterinary Institute in Kraljevo says that it is a natural phenomenon. Weather conditions, high temperatures and humidity shorten the development cycle of these flying insects explained Rajkovic.
Kraljevo tonight was engulfed by an unprecedented cloud of flies that are in swarms, with the first dusk, almost buried the entire city.
Miodrag Rajkovic of the Veterinary Institute in Kraljevo says that it is a natural phenomenon. Weather conditions, high temperatures and humidity shorten the development cycle of these flying insects explained Rajkovic.
Experts were able to identify the whales' tail flukes, dorsal fins and plumes of spray
The largest group of whales thought to have been seen travelling together in or near the Firth of Forth has been recorded from the air.
The pod of 14 sperm whales was seen on Thursday heading from the island of Fidra to the Lamb, just a mile offshore at North Berwick in East Lothian.
The whales then changed direction, heading towards Crail in Fife.
They were reported to the Scottish Seabird Centre by microlight pilots who saw them from a height of 500ft.
The whales were also spotted by Scottish Natural Heritage staff and other researchers on the Isle of May who were able to identify the whales' tail flukes, dorsal fins and plumes of spray.
Erich Hoyt, North Berwick-based marine conservationist and author, said: "Sperm whales are rarely seen in the Firth of Forth, and to see 14 of them travelling together is very special.
"The previous close sighting of sperm whales in North Berwick was exactly 10 years ago this month when a large sperm whale landed on the beach at Canty Bay, but this is certainly the largest group of living whales we've seen travelling together in or near the Firth of Forth.
"Sperm whales are usually residents of deeper waters off the north and west of Scotland where they hunt squid."
Port Arthur resident Lara Comeaux says over the course of just two days she and her neighbors have found at least 7 dead birds in their yards along Shady Cove Lane. "We've never had anything like this before, maybe a baby bird falling out of a nest in the front once or twice, but never birds just falling out of the sky," Comeaux told 12News Friday afternoon.
Yokohama - Health authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what killed 17 crows and one pigeon whose bodies were found on the street in Yokohama earlier in the day.
According to police, the birds were found dead at around 8 a.m. in a 200-meter radius in an entertainment district about 400 meters from JR Kannai Station. NTV quoted police as saying there were no external injuries on the birds.
Health authorities said there was no sign of bird flu and believe the birds must have ingested poison of some kind.
According to police, the birds were found dead at around 8 a.m. in a 200-meter radius in an entertainment district about 400 meters from JR Kannai Station. NTV quoted police as saying there were no external injuries on the birds.
Health authorities said there was no sign of bird flu and believe the birds must have ingested poison of some kind.
Plymouth, Minnesota - Many of us thought we'd seen it all when it comes to the winter of 2012-2013.
Think again.
On a day in which spring made its return to Minnesota with a vengeance, Nadalie Thomas caught Old Man Winter making his last stand with an ice-shattering spectacle known to some as "chandeliering."
Nadalie and her kids were down on the shores of Medicine Lake in Plymouth Saturday when they noticed large piles of ice that were splintering into fine shards similar to glass. As spectacular as the visual image was the ear-splitting sound that accompanied the icy scene.
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