New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensational news comes as storm experts and politicians today laid out an apocalyptic warning of what will happen to Manhattan if Hurricane Irene makes a direct hit on New York City. Governor Andrew Cuomo... 

President Obama went to the airwaves early Friday urging people to prepare for an apocalyptic nightmare that could strike the East Coast this weekend as Hurricane Irene encroaches across America. Issuing a warning on Friday morning, the president urged Americans to take heed of what he says will go down as a “historic hurricane” that will prove to be both extremely dangerous and costly. “I... 

Russian soldiers hold air defense exercise at Ashuluk training ground in Russia's Astrakhan Region. Six soldiers have been killed and twelve others injured in a blast at a Russian military base in the southern part of the country. The explosion happened on Tuesday when the soldiers were disposing of old munitions on the Ashuluk base in the Astrakhan region, at the mouth of the Volga River, about... 

The fire destroyed the two-storey house Seven children have died in a fire at a house near the Australian city of Brisbane. At least seven children are among 11 people presumed dead in one of Australia’s worst urban fire disasters. The inferno, which destroyed a two-storey house near the city of Brisbane, began around midnight. The house was reportedly home to two families from Tonga and Samoa. Three... 

The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” TheWrap has learned. The information — protected for 80 years — is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as “shocking,” producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of... 

Wildfire in Volgograd (former Stalingrad), situated on the western bank of the Volga River. The total land area ablaze in Russia has increased drastically over the past day as the government tries to fight the ongoing wildfires, according to the Russian emergencies ministry. The emergencies ministry officials have said that some 3,000 hectares of land has been covered by wildfires since Wednesday,... 

The Cooper Nuclear Power Station near Brownville, Nebraska. As the Missouri River continues to swell, the US state of Nebraska has issued an emergency flood warning at the Cooper Nuclear Power Station. The Nebraska Public Power District has issued a flood alert for the state’s southeast Cooper nuclear plant, the Associated Press reported. “We knew the river was going to rise for some time,”... 

A Tu-134 passenger plane of RusAir airline crashed in Russia’s Karelia Republic on Monday night. It was originally said that the plane performed a hard landing, although it became clear later that the situation was much more serious. The plane bound for Petrozavodsk from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport was landing in complicated weather conditions – in heavy fog and rain – at 23:40.... 

Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station in Will County in northeastern Illinois, US. Radioactive tritium has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites of commercial nuclear power sites in the United States, investigations have shown. According to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission records, tritium a radioactive form of hydrogen has leaked through corroded pipes into the ground and that the number and severity... 

A recent report says that US nuclear plants are in grave condition. With busted seals, broken nozzles and rusted pipes plaguing America’s nuclear power plants, a report released by The Associated Press today warns that the US is in danger of copycatting the catastrophe that ravaged the Fukushima facility in Japan. After a yearlong investigation, the AP has concluded that many of the nation’s facilities... 

A picture of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant taken from the air after the March quake and tsunami. The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant has stopped the clean-up operation as radiation levels rose faster than expected. “The level of radiation at a machine to absorb cesium has risen faster than our initial projections,” Reuters quoted a spokesman for Tokyo Electric... 

A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant [photo top left] located in Nebraska. According to... 

Red Cross education specialist Lisa Klink stresses the importance of having a disaster kit ready. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year served as dramatic reminders that people everywhere should be ready for disasters. Here in the United States, scientists say California will one day be rocked by a major earthquake. Local authorities are trying to ensure that everyone is ready. Children... 

Tens of thousands of people were spending a freezing night without power after Christchurch was shaken by a series of violent earthquakes. With temperatures plummeting under a clear winter sky, the Orion lines company warned more than 20,000 householders they would not be reconnected until at least Tuesday. Residents were also being told to boil drinking water. Christchurch Hospital said two of the... 

An aerial view of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday. The nuclear group’s new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than previous statements in describing...