A family hit the road on a warm and sunny day to visit the grandparents when the sky slowly started to shift. Just minutes after the clouds started rolling in, they were confronted with this absolutely insane weather.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the Caribbean island nation had sustained "widespread devastation" from the storm, which is now at Category 5 strength.
Sunday's Formula 1 race in Singapore took place under wet conditions, which became abundantly clear in the opening moments, when a nasty collision forced two Ferrari drivers to withdraw.
On September 26, 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov received a message that five nuclear missiles had been launched by the United States and were heading to Moscow. He didn't launch a retaliatory strike, believing correctly that it was a false alarm.
Four American college students were attacked with acid Sunday at a train station in Marseilles, southern France, a spokeswoman for the Prefecture of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône said.
Almost a quarter of Japanese men and a tenth of Japanese women over age 60 say there is not a single person they could rely on in difficult times. The American crisis may not be so dissimilar from the Japanese one.
The incidents involved either strange, unpleasant noises or inaudible vibrations that induced symptoms including mild traumatic brain injury, hearing loss, headaches, nausea and cognitive disruption — and no one knows what caused them.
The genre is often taken to mean English gloom – but a robust hybrid version, taking in everything from local folklore to classic cinema, is flourishing among the art-school introverts of Shanghai, Tokyo and Taiwan.
And the International Olympic Committee for transforming its unruly, tension-filled and sometimes corrupt bidding process into a history-making, two-city victory that secures the future of the Games for the next 11 years.