A Hurricane Harvey-hit home owner got a big surprise when he returned home.

Lina and Blad Guzman had to evacuate their house due to rapidly rising waters.

A raging fire has broken out at a Texas chemical plant.

As rescuers continued their heartbreaking work Trump managed to turn attention on himself.

Police found a shivering toddler clinging to her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal.

One Texas location has received more than 49 inches, the most ever from a tropical system.

Mysterious Good Samaritan unveiled as Dad who saved child before getting own family.

Scope of disaster remains unclear as officials try to assess how many people are missing.

Kiwis are among the thousands stranded in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Rescuers moved in to save 15 people at La Vita Bella after photo went viral on Twitter.

Authorities are warning that the flooding will get worse over coming days.

Officials tell those not evacuating to write name on their arm as means of identification.

Forecasters predict "catastrophic flooding" as Hurricane Harvey evolves into Cat 3 storm.

After leaving newborn in flowerbed covered in ants, woman went home and went to sleep.

Customer filmed threatening an employee because he had waited "two hours" for his fries.

Winston Aldworth finds a cool town that stands apart and makes a big noise.

Check out the Texan capital of cool.

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Japanese internees were being taken from Auckland to Australia for a prisoner exchange.

Three schools in Texas are bringing back the wooden paddle.

Truck parked outside a shopping centre on a 38C day. Inside people were cooking to death

Most people ignored the notes as they thought it was a practical joke.

Avery was at a US college orientation day when she received a strange text from her mum.

At 318kg, fetish model Monica Riley was on her way to becoming the world's fattest woman.

There was no way she'd be wearing this to any wedding.

Severe weather has hit the US with estimate 17 tornadoes touched down in five states.

The dead lay everywhere - it was a scene unlike any the Texas police officer had seen.

One person is dead and three wounded after a stabbing spree at the University of Texas.

Woman claims police missed out "whole chunks" of information during their investigation.

13 arrests of male student athletes following alleged 'sadistic hazing rituals'.