NEW YORK Jan 31: More than 1,400 U.S. flights were canceled on Sunday after the nation's northeast states were walloped a day earlier by a deadly winter storm that prompted several states to declare emergencies.

It wasn’t the weather that delayed school this week, at least not the first time. Students in the Northeast might be giddily anticipating a storm that the National Weather Service says could drop a foot or more of snow across the region Wednesday and Thursday.

CONCORD, Jan 22: Falling temperatures replaced the weekend’s falling snow Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States.

BEIJING, Aug 25: A fire early on Saturday morning at a hot springs hotel in the far northeastern Chinese city of Harbin killed 18 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

CHICAGO, Dec 26: The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it has been a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 23:  Authorities in northeastern Nigeria say 13 people have been killed by a suicide bombing in Maiduguri.

TOWNSVILLE, March 28: A powerful cyclone slammed into Australia's tropical northeast coast on Tuesday, tearing down fences, snapping trees and knocking out power to thousands, officials said.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb 1: The Taliban have shot and killed a woman accused of adultery in a remote province in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday.

GAUHATI, India, Nov 19:  Police say rebels have ambushed two Indian army vehicles and killed at least three soldiers and critically wounded four others in India's remote northeast.