Havana (AFP) - Hurricane Ike assaulted Cuba on Monday with torrential rain and gale-force winds demolishing houses, crushing crops and threatening Havana after killing 61 people in Haiti, where a series of vicious storms has triggered a

Hurricane Ike's torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people. Flooding also collapsed a bridge that had been the last land route

ZURICH (AFP) - The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna has exceeded 500 and is growing by the hour, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Saturday. “The toll is increasing hourly,” an OCHA