New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

This is a scene from New Orleans.

Farragut captured New Orleans without a fight.

None were allowed in New Orleans however.

New Orleans is America s canary in the mineshaft.

Mary Hat was in New Orleans this week.

Indeed, a large share of New Orleans homeowners 60 in Orleans Parish were completely uninsured against floods.

Hundreds of New Orleans like devastations around the world.

Kyoto would not have saved New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.

Each year New Orleans plays host to the Sugar Bowl, the New Orleans Bowl and the Zurich Classic, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour.

The floodwaters will recede in New Orleans and reconstruction will begin.

Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans.

This became a pattern repeated in New Orleans and other places.

The first opera in New Orleans was given there in 1796.

Yet there is perhaps a silver lining in the clouds over New Orleans.

This philosophy would benefit places like New Orleans as much as Phuket in Thailand.

Seven workers died, and the blast was felt as far away as New Orleans.

America, the richest country in the world, clearly had the resources to evacuate New Orleans.

Demographics According to the 2010 Census, 343,829 people and 189,896 households were in New Orleans.

On the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a unit of the New York City Police Department was helping out in New Orleans, and the city returned a fire engine that New Orleans had earlier donated as a symbol of solidarity.

New Orleans was originally settled on the natural levees or high ground, along the Mississippi River.

If it was difficult to evacuate and supply a small city like New Orleans, how would New York or Los Angeles fare?

The world has been horrified at America s response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans.

The Dadaab camp now houses 500,000 people and is a ramshackle city the size of New Orleans.

New Orleans is also home to the Fair Grounds Race Course, the nation's third oldest thoroughbred track.

Fine, but what happens to people, like the poor of hurricane struck New Orleans, who don t own boats?

By contrast, the disaster in New Orleans and elsewhere along America s Gulf Coast exposed and aggravated such rifts.

Norco is town of around 3,000 residents on the Mississippi River, about 20 miles upriver from New Orleans.

underinvestment in the public sector, including in infrastructure, evidenced so dramatically by the collapse of New Orleans levies and

They point to worsening income inequality, as images beamed worldwide from post hurricane New Orleans illustrated all too clearly.

Now America has had to pay the price for ignoring loud warnings about the weakened levees of New Orleans.

Clearly, nothing could have spared New Orleans completely from Katrina s impact, but the devastation could certainly have been lessened.

Even so, they are not immune to water related disasters, as Hurricane Katrina s destruction of New Orleans taught us.

New Orleans is a city mostly below sea level, and must be protected by levees to keep water out.

Associated Press writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Greenville, Mississippi, and Rebecca Santana in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Mos Def sings It Ain't My Fault at The Gulf Aid fundraiser in New Orleans on May 15, 2010.

In May 2010, the band embarked on a month long tour starting with the New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, those who died were the poor in low lying areas who lacked cars to escape.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, those who died were the poor in low lying areas who lacked cars to escape.

It gets its name from the New Orleans Refining Company, which operated an oil refinery there, built by Shell in 1916.

Creole jambalaya is the signature dish of the state of Louisiana, and is particularly associated with the city of New Orleans.

America kept foreign officials from coming to the aid of their nationals in New Orleans embarrassed, perhaps, at what they would see.

Instead, direct policies to address New Orleans vulnerabilities could have avoided the huge and unnecessary cost in human misery and economic loss.

The most shocking statement in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was President George W. Bush s remark that I don t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees that protect New Orleans from flooding. New Orleans is a city mostly below sea level, and must be protected by levees to keep water out.