Posts Tagged ‘their-homes’

South China battles ‘big freeze’

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Up to 60,000 people in southern China are being evacuated from their homes as freezing weather damages property and closes roads.

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South China battles ‘big freeze’

Massive Floods Ravage Australia

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Thousands of residents along Australia’s northeast coast have fled their homes following a massive flooding on Sunday that’s been described as “a disaster of biblical proportions” by Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser, who estimates the flooding…

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Massive Floods Ravage Australia

‘Battling to save what they can’

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Thousands more people are evacuating their homes as widespread flooding continues across the Australian state of Queensland.

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‘Battling to save what they can’

‘Battling to save what they can’

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Thousands more people are evacuating their homes as widespread flooding continues across the Australian state of Queensland.

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‘Battling to save what they can’

Danes trapped by snow on Bornholm

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Deep snow traps thousands of people in their homes on the Danish island of Bornholm, but extra snowploughs have now arrived.

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Danes trapped by snow on Bornholm

Lurgan houses flooded with sewage

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Residents of a County Armagh housing estate express anger after sewage flooded through their homes on Monday morning.

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Lurgan houses flooded with sewage

‘Hundreds seized’ in Ivory Coast

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

The UN says it has received reports of hundreds of people being abducted from their homes in Ivory Coast since last month’s disputed election.

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‘Hundreds seized’ in Ivory Coast

Violent partners to face home ban

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

People suspected of domestic violence could be banned from their homes for up to four weeks under plans to be trialled in England.

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Violent partners to face home ban

Minister defends housing reforms

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Minister Grant Shapps says people will not be “chased out of their homes” by reforms to social housing in England which could end council homes for life.

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Minister defends housing reforms

Volcano locals try to return home

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Villagers in Indonesia are trying to return to their homes on the slopes of a volatile volcano, despite eruptions that have killed at least 25 people.

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Volcano locals try to return home

Germans opt out of Google plans

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

About 3% of Germans have asked Google to blur images of their homes on the Street View service.

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Germans opt out of Google plans

Floods swamp south Sudan region

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, officials say.

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Floods swamp south Sudan region

Families flee over UDA ‘warnings’

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

A number of families from a loyalist area of north Belfast have said they are being forced out of their homes by the UDA.

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Families flee over UDA ‘warnings’

China-N Korea river hit by floods

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

China and North Korea evacuate thousands of people from their homes after heavy rains flood villages on both sides of the border.

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China-N Korea river hit by floods