VIENNA (AP) — A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by the U.N. because of its unique beauty.
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — India's prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially.
By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - BT Chief Executive Ian Livingston is stepping down to take up a government job promoting British business, knocking shares in the telecom company he has helped reposition on the path to growth. Investors wiped more than half a billion pounds from the market value of BT over worries that its recovery might lose momentum under successor Gavin Patterson, its head of retail. ...