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Waves crash against a lighthouse during storms that battered Britain and where a 14-year-old boy was swept away to sea at Newhaven in South East England October 28, 2013. (Reuters/Luke MacGregor)

At least 13 have been killed as violent storms have battered the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and parts of northern France, cutting off power and felling trees and scaffolding.

RUSSIA: Call that a pothole! Russian Cabbie Falls Into Huge Sinkhole (VIDEO, PHOTO)

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   Call that a pothole! Russian Cabbie Falls Into Huge Sinkhole

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

They may look like stills from an apocalyptic horror film, but these images have become a daily reality for residents in a Russian city. 

Citizens of Samara, in south east Russia, live in fear of the ground literally disappearing beneath them after huge sinkholes have started to appear all over their city, leaving devastation in their wake. 

The yawning underground caverns are all believed to have sprung up in recent weeks swallowing cars, buses and claiming at least one life.The sinkholes, some large enough to swallow an entire truck, are believed to have been caused by ground subsidence. 

It is thought the holes have been caused as ice thaws and melts into the ground, with the excess water causing soil decay underneath Samara's roads. 

The massive craters have appeared in car parks, busy intersections, by the sides of roads, and on major and minor thoroughfares.

 

 

Lord Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'

Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to economies as planet absorbs less carbon and is 'on track' for 4C rise 

The Stern review, published in 2006, pointed to a 75% chance that global temperatures would rise by between two and three degrees above the long-term average; he now believes we are "on track for something like four ". Had he known the way the situation would evolve, he says, "I think I would have been a bit more blunt. I would have been much more strong about the risks of a four- or five-degree rise."