WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA will send surveillance flights over Haiti and the Dominican Republic to look for signs that more earthquakes may hit the area after a giant quake that killed as many as 200,000 people two weeks ago. The flights will use radar to look for changes in geologic faults on Hispaniola, the island that the two nations share ...

A strengthening Hurricane Gustav was expected to make landfall Tuesday in Haiti, where a tropical storm battered the impoverished Caribbean nation less than two weeks ago. At 1200 GMT, the center of Gustav was located about 75 miles (125 kilometers) south-southeast of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, and was moving toward the northwest at around nine miles (15 kilometers per hour ...

Tropical Storm Gustav grew into a hurricane Tuesday after emerging in the Caribbean, threatening Haiti with powerful winds less than two weeks after the country was hit by a deadly storm. Gustav gained strength as it approached the impoverished island, packing winds of 135 kilometers per hour (85 miles), the US National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory at ...