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A strong earthquake has been triggered in northern Italy. Reports indicate that four people have been killed, although final numbers may be higher. Serious damage has been caused to buildings.
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As three tornadoes hit Michigan Thursday evening over 100 homes were damaged or destroyed with at least 200 residents displaced. The slow moving storm produced large hail, heavy rain and high winds.
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One of the oldest branches of the Royal British Legion is now facing a repair bill of £80,000, after surveyors discovered damage caused by German bombers during the Blitz.
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A female customer in a liquor store in West Nyack, New York went on an angry bottle breaking spree in the Hub Shopping Center at Rite Buy Wine and Liquor.
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More than 296,800 people died in 373 natural disasters in 2010. In addition, about 208 million people were affected by the disasters. The figures have just been released by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
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A teacher in the UK who suffered damage to her voice because she had to speak loudly to be heard in the classroom was awarded more than £150,000 in compensation.
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The floods that ravaged Pakistan since July caused an estimated $9.7 billion in damage to infrastructure, farms, homes, as well as other direct and indirect losses, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) have said.
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Global environmental damage resulting from human activity resulted in an economic cost of $6.6 trillion during 2008, equivalent to 11 percent of global GDP. By 2050, this annual amount is expected to jump to $28 trillion (18 percent of GDP).
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A ram in a house may cause as much damage as a bull in a china shop, as one animal recently demonstrated when it got into a Lancashire home.
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A week apart and hundreds of miles from each other, two structures were hit and damaged by a meteorite falling from the sky, the other by a boulder rolling off a hill.
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Images of the 2011 tornado damage in Joplin, Mo.
A girl left severely brain damaged by complications after her premature birth is awarded £7.3m.
A rogue wave has damaged an anti-whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean, as it followed the Japanese whaling fleet.
A tornado has been reported in parts of Oxfordshire during a storm which caused damage to trees and roof tiles.
A study by Scottish researchers suggests chemicals routinely found in the environment could be damaging male fertility.
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Damage in Urayasu, Chiba prefecture, Japan, caused by liquefaction during March 11, 2011 earthquake.
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