Almost two years after being badly damaged and needing to be evacuated after Superstorm Sandy, NYU Langone Medical Center will receive $1.13 billion in recovery aid.
A domestic TransAsia Airways flight crashed while attempting to make an emergency landing due to stormy weather caused by Typhoon Matmo on the outlying Penghu island of Taiwan.
Environmentalists are on edge as the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which crashed on the Italian island of Giglio two-and-a-half years ago, is dragged through 200 nautical miles of the Mediterranean Sea.