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Over 430 people were killed by devastating floods which swept the Philippines last night. A tropical storm struck the island country and carried people away as they slept, sweeping some straight out to sea. Hundreds more are believed to be missing as aid workers try to rebuild the villages...

A severe storm, named Joachim, has unleashed high winds, torrential rain and some snow as it plowed eastward France and into Germany. Along with damaging winds and flooding rain, the newest storm hurled hammering waves against the Atlantic shore of France and northwest Spain. The seas...

A mother and her two young daughters were among six people who drowned after torrential rain brought severe flash flooding to the Italian city of Genoa. The woman was swept to her death along with her 11-month-old baby and eight-year-old daughter as neighbours frantically tried to save them...

An aerial view of submerged cars at the Honda Motor factory in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, which has been caught up in the country's flooding. Thai flood victim in a small bath tub shaped bucket paddling with flip-flop sandals past a flooded Toyota dealership in Bangkok An...

Major flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand, most severely in the Chao Phraya but also in the Mekong River basin. Beginning in late July and continuing for over two months, as of 13 October there have been 283 reported deaths, over two million people affected, with...

Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 233 people in Pakistan, a disaster agency spokesman said Wednesday, as a weather forecast calls for more rain over deluged parts of the country. Seven people have died in the past 24 hours, said Irshad Bhatti, a spokesman for the National Disaster...

The entire eastern coast of the United States should prepare for Irene, a large and dangerous hurricane churning northwestward over the tropical waters of the Caribbean, the nation's emergency chief warned Tuesday. After lashing the Turks and Caicos islands and the Bahamas, Irene is...

A mid-summer monsoon-style downpour caused flash flooding across southern Britain today as a fortnight's worth of rain fell in just 30 minutes leaving homes, shops and roads underwater. The force of the rainwater caused huge cracks to open up along main roads and lifted manhole covers clean...

2011 South Korea Floods & Landslides - more than 60 dead, dozens missing [GALLERY] After a month of heavy rain saturated mountainsides, a fresh deluge sent landslides sweeping into Seoul last week, killing 59 people. Ten were still reported missing. In a strange compounding of the...

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At least 14 people have been killed in raging flood waters that have swept through south-western Guizhou province. Scores of people are missing, and tens of thousands have left their homes ahead of more flooding. Roads, bridges and hundreds of homes and cars have been...

A deadly mudslide in Columbia covered a bus as it was traveling out of the central city area of Manizales. The bus was covered with mud when a hill side slid down upon it and pushed it off the road. The slide was caused by the massive amounts of rainfall that have been falling on the area...

Foreign tourists board buses at Sattahip navy base, some 150 kms southeast of Bangkok, on March 31, 2011 after around 700 of them were evacuated on a Thai Navy aircraft carrier from Ko Tao island, in the Gulf of Thailand. BANGKOK — Flooding across southern Thailand has killed at least 35...

16 Feb 2011 TROPICAL Cyclone Carlos has dumped more rain on Darwin in a 24-hour period than Cyclone Yasi inflicted on any town in a single day. Weather Channel senior meteorologist Dick Whitaker said Darwin recorded a total of 339.6mm of rain during the 24 hours ending at 9am today. "This is...

Wildfires have destroyed a number of homes in western Australia, as the north-east of the country continues to be affected by flooding brought about by Cyclone Yasi last week. Flooding also affected the southern state of Victoria after Yasi caused a series of thunderstorms over...

First cyclone hits Queensland, but the big one is still building Tom Reilly January 31, 2011 THE upper reaches of Queensland's central coast were hit by a cyclone last night which battered some areas with winds of up to 140km/h. The category two cyclone, named Anthony, made landfall near Bowen...

The 2011 Australian floods refer to a series of floods in north-eastern Australia, primarily in the state of Queensland. The floods have resulted in the evacuation of thousands of people from the affected towns and cities. At least 22 towns and over 200,000 people have been affected. Damage...

The Australian military evacuated a town's entire population by helicopter after the worst rains in a decade on Dec 27, 2010 A total of 1,000 people were rescued from the town of Theodore, in eastern Australia, with swollen rivers expected to rise higher as torrential rain continues. At...

California is waking this morning to find the Golden State has been turned in to water world. Residents are reeling after an astonishing week of storms and torrential rain caused flooding, mudslides, tornadoes - and, in the mountains, more than 15ft of snow. Governor Arnold...