Thousands of firefighters and other rescue workers searched house by house Monday along France's devastated Atlantic coast, trying to help those still stranded by a storm that smashed sea walls and ...

Atlantic storm Xynthia whipped through western Europe at the weekend, leaving at least 50 dead on the western coast of France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled three million euros in ...

Devastating Winter Storm Xynthia ripped a swath of destruction through Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and Germany over the weekend, killing at least 62 people. It was Europe's 5th deadliest winter ...

Rescuers waded through floodwaters and took to boats in France on Monday looking for more bodies after a storm dubbed "Xynthia" killed at least 60 people in western Europe, including 51 in France. It ...

French Air Force and Navy helicopters have gone into action rescuing people affected by Storm Xynthia over the weekend. The storm struck on Saturday night into Sunday. With the damage inflicted, the ...

The 2010 system pushed a deadly storm surge as high as 1.5 metres into the coast, flooding communities in western France ...

The church service in honour of the dead takes place at Luçon Cathedral in the Vendée department, which, along with Charente-Maritime, bore the brunt of floods and storm damage last weekend. On ...

Today's great quake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and South American plates about 325 km southwest of the capital Santiago (population 5.3 million). The depth was estimated at 35 km. At ...

The plaintive piece by Jazz Charton about her “smart” window blinds not working (House & Home, June 14), and your graph showing record levels of sea warming in the northeastern north Atlantic (Report, ...

LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - British non-life insurer Hiscox expects its combined loss from February's Chilean earthquake and windstorm Xynthia, which swept through Europe at the end of last month, to ...

French insurance companies estimate that last month’s Storm Xynthia cost the country 1.5 billion euros, higher than recent devastating storms. An official decree has declared 62 more administrative ...