Hurricane Isaac hits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary - video
Hurricane Isaac hits south-east Louisiana as a category 1 storm with top wind speeds of 80mph on Tuesday – seven years, almost to the day, after Katrina hit
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New Orleans experiences torrential rain and the threat of flooding as Hurricane Isaac hits the city on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
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• New Orleans exhausted after daylong hammering by Isaac• Dozens rescued in Plaquemines, where search efforts continue• One confirmed fatality in storm Tom McCarthy
View ArticleHurricane Isaac: waters top levee near New Orleans – video
Hurricane Isaac drives water over a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday – but the barriers protecting the city itself are not breached
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New Orleans defences strained as hurricane Isaac pounds Gulf coast
Torrential rain and winds of 75mph strike Louisiana and Mississippi, knocking out power and threatening severe floodingHurricane Isaac howled through Louisiana and Mississippi on Wednesday, sending...
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New Orleans defences hold up to Hurricane Isaac
Fortified levees and an elaborate flood containment plan appear to have spared city from disasterHeavy rain continued to drench Louisiana and Mississippi as tropical storm Isaac trudged slowly...
View ArticleTropical storm Isaac heads north from New Orleans – in pictures
Heavy rain continued to drench Louisiana and Mississippi as tropical storm Isaac trudged slowly northwards
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Plaquemines Parish evacuees recovering from Isaac's flood waters
Ordered to leave, many stayed anyway and awoke Tuesday night to flood waters quickly rising through their low-lying homesAs a short story author, Samuel George conjures surreal plots and characters,...
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New Orleans Times-Picayune prints last daily edition amid shift to digital news
Storied newspaper survived Katrina but city and its journalists now face 'a new reality' as publishing industry is upendedThe decline of newspapers has been so regularly reported that it can be...
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Tucker Carlson's Obama video: the Fox News 'bombshell' that fizzled | Michael...
Even with heavy promotion by Drudge, a supposed scandal over presidential 'cadence' just made Fox and friends look stupid• Rightwing media release 'exclusive' old Obama videoOne of the things about...
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Electric pants may prevent bed sores
Smart-e-Pants electrically stimulate patients' buttock muscles to promote circulation and reduce the incidence of bed soresScientists have developed underwear with built-in electrodes that deliver...
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Young blood can reverse some effects of ageing, study finds
Blood from young mice improved learning and memory in older mice, and increased connections between their brain cellsIt is rumoured that the late Kim Jong-il would inject himself with blood from...
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Romney and Obama hail New Orleans' charter schools as a model for America
After Katrina, New Orleans rolled out a scheme to allow public money to follow kids into private education. It's won favour all round – but Romney wants to push its market ethos even furtherThe...
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Ugly echoes of Katrina as Bloomberg disregards prisoner safety from Sandy |...
New York's mayor is responsible for 12,000 prisoners on Rikers Island, but was remarkably blase about their risk during SandyIn the build-up to Hurricane Sandy, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and...
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Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin indicted on corruption charges
Federal indictment alleges that Nagin took more than $160,000 in bribes, along with free private jet and limousine servicesFormer New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used...
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New Orleans' revenge on NFL's Roger Goodell best served cold – or not at all
Commissioner is in town for Super Bowl XLVII but lingering bitterness over Bountygate has restaurant trade up in armsIf the position of commissioner of the National Football League doesn't come with a...
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New Orleans heralds recovery from Hurricane Katrina disaster
Away from the Super Bowl scrimmage, a city is marveling at new flood defences built by the US Army Corps of EngineersNew Orleans makes a spectacular host for most occasions but is especially suited to...
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Gay slurs, drugs and sex scandals cast dark shadow on Super Bowl Sunday
Millions will watch gridiron's biggest game – but it comes at the end of a bad week for the sportIt is meant to be the day when the US celebrates its ultimate sporting occasion, as two teams stretch...
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Super Bowl blackout caused by 'failure of device protecting power supply'
Entergy New Orleans says Superdome outage that delayed Super Bowl for 34 minutes was caused by failure of a relayThe failure of a device that was meant to protect the power supply to the Superdome...
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