Vast croplands and many homesteads in low lying areas of 15 river basin villages in two upazilas of Nilphamari have been flooded due to sudden rise of water level in the Teesta river.

Although water level in Jamuna river has increased, Sirajganj Water Development Board ruled out any chances of flood in the district as it is still flowing below the danger mark.

Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamored for food, shelter and medical care on Tuesday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding.

The Teesta river is dangerously swelling, with water flowing four centimetres above the safe level at Teesta Barrage in Hatibandha of Lalmonirhat yesterday morning. It has inundated villages in the low-lying areas.

Flash floods that swept through towns in Turkish Black Sea provinces have killed 70 people and emergency workers continue to search for 47 missing people, authorities said on Monday.

Water level of Teesta river has crossed the danger level in Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat due to heavy downpour and water flowing in from India.

Two farmers were killed when lightning struck them at Agrapanch Baria village in Shahjahanpur upazila of Bogura district last night.

At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels, schools and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.

A major earthquake killed at least 29 people in southwestern Haiti on Saturday, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation already mired in humanitarian and political crises.

Families of those missing after Turkey's worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll from the raging torrents could rise further.

One woman was dead and two people were missing on Saturday after torrential rains touched off a landslide and engulfed at least two houses in western Japan, with rivers overflowing their banks as rain continued to pound the area.

Two people including a teenage boy were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Gomostapur upazila yesterday.

Two people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Chapainawabganj today.

Three people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Mymensingh today.

Two people were killed and over 40 were feared buried under the debris after a landslide trapped a bus and other vehicles in Kinnaur district of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh today, officials said.

Wildfires fanned by blistering temperatures and tinder-dry conditions have killed at least seven people in Algeria, the interior minister said Tuesday, adding the fires had criminal origins.

Bangladesh is likely to face more frequent and more intense heavy rainfalls, flooding, and cyclones due to global climate change in the coming days, predicted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

A light earthquake jolted the port city and adjoining areas this evening.

Until devastated by wildfires, hills near the Turkish sea resort of Marmaris were decked in thick green pine forest. Now these same hills form a ghostly, grey-brown landscape topped with blackened tree stumps as though sketched in charcoal.

A raging wildfire in northern California, now the second-largest recorded in state history, expanded to nearly 500,000 acres late on Sunday and has left three firefighters injured.