(Reuters) - Tropical depression 13 has formed in the far eastern tropical Atlantic and is expected to intensify into a tropical storm on Monday night or Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Paine strengthened off Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday, though the storm is forecast to weaken substantially before reaching land later this week, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Sept 19 (Reuters) - More wells passed safety inspections at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in Los Angeles, Southern California Gas Co said on Monday, but the company has more work to do before it can inject gas into the giant field the utility shut last fall due to a massive methane leak that was not plugged until February.

LONDON (Reuters) - Nico Rosberg drew level with Damon Hill in Formula One's all-time list of race winners on Sunday and the odds are narrowing on the German matching the Briton again as the only sons of world champions to take the title.

LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Hedge funds have built their largest bullish position in U.S. natural gas for more than two years amid signs the gas glut is being eroded quickly and the market could tighten in 2017.

(Reuters) - Former tropical storm Julia weakened into a remnant low on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is bracing for its second typhoon in a week after government raised their alert to "orange" for Typhoon Malakas on Saturday, just as southeastern provinces continue to clean up after an earlier, stronger storm, state news agency Xinhua reported.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokesman on Friday defended the utility's practice of rinsing artificial turf at its facilities in face of a local TV report that portrayed the move as a waste of water during California's four-year drought.

LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. natural gas market is well on the way to rebalancing as unusually high airconditioning demand coupled with strong underlying consumption growth absorbs the record inventories left at the end of last winter.