In Spain, the Weather Service warned 29 provinces, for the return of a severe cold and snowfall that can occur even at sea level. Washington is experiencing the worst winter in 111 years with a snow accumulation of 1.39 meters. And the season is not over. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

A state of emergency has been declared in five California counties paralyzed by intense storms.

In southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, the Galeras volcano erupted, causing this Saturday an evacuation of about 8 thousand people helped by different emergency services

Official sources reported that “In the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, at least eighteen people were killed by heavy rains.”

Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico’s Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into a Category 4 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about five days.

Dermatologists warn about the risks of exposing the body to tattoos and piercings saying that “they can cause infections and diseases, contrary to what many think.”

Quakes in the southwest Pacific generated a tsunami on Thursday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, without giving details on the height of the wave.

A tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake in the Pacific islands has killed at least three people and injured 50 in Samoa, as the island nation’s people fled to higher ground after a big sub-sea quake, officials said.

An increase in electricity and natural gas bills will take place next month, and the government refuses to take citizens by surprise, so authorities are going to implement an information scheme for household customers.

Hurricane Bill shut the airport and caused flooding but no casualties on Bermuda on Saturday, then prompted tropical storm warnings for parts of Canada and the U.S. coast.

A bomb exploded on Sunday in a beachfront restaurant in the capital of the island of Mallorca, media reported there had been a phone warning in the name of Basque separatist group ETA.

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in southeast China’s coast of Fujian Province where typhoon Morakot is predicted to land on Saturday. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

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New Zealand was spared a destructive tsunami after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off its South Island, the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.