BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Rescuers helped drivers escape swift floodwaters and used helicopters to pluck stranded people from rooftops in northeast Australia on Tuesday after torrential rains flooded thousands of homes and businesses, killed four an... [Full Article]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - From the outside, The Shelter looks like any other building along Yongfu Road, a favorite hangout for Shanghai bar-goers. But walk through the doors, down a narrow stairway and through a winding tunnel to the main room with its b... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A security guard shelters Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen from firecrackers as she waves to supporters behind a bullet-proof glass from her vehicle during a campaign for ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Rustam, a 38-year-old man of Afghan descent, shelters his three daughters under the awning of a McDonalds restaurant in Karachi September 10, 2011. About 3.5 million Afghans have returned home since 2002 from Pakistan with the assistance ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Internally displaced Somali women construct makeshift shelters at a settlement near Mogadishu Airport, August 4, 2011. Drought, conflict and a lack of food aid have left 3.6 million people at risk of starvation in southern Somalia. The dr... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A woman shelters her daughters with an umbrella as they march with Islamic Action Front supporters during a demonstration against what they say are worsening political and economic conditions, after Friday prayers in Amman July 29, 2011. ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Hilda Chumbe, 34, shelters herself from rain under the roof of her hut at Ticlio Chico neighbourhood in the district of Villa Maria El Triunfo, southern Lima July 5, 2011. The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima launched the "Coats Sou... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A U.S Navy personnel shelters form heavy rain beneath the wing of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in Hong Kong May 22, 2011. The carrier arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday for a four-day... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Local inhabitants walk between improvised shelters next to Pata-Rat's city dump in the outskirts of Cluj-Napoc, 480 km northwest from Bucharest, in 2009. The IMF approved a new ?3.6 billion loan for cash-strapped Romania on Friday, a... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A combination photo shows people walking near makeshift shelters after the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Reconstruction has barely begun in Haiti a year after its catastrophic earthquake, a leading international charity Oxfam... [Full Article]