More rain on the way in flooded Alaska
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High water that closed the main corridor between the state's two largest cities dropped steadily Sunday, though weary emergency officials kept a close watch on forecasts calling for more rain.
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With harsh weather tilting the bow half of a freighter wrecked off Alaska two weeks ago, up to 316,000 additional gallons of oil are thought to have spilled from the ship.
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Homeowners in parts of England and Wales are on flood standby as more heavy rain continues to fall.
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Fears of further flooding across the UK ease but forecasters warn there is still more rain to come.
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Rescuers searching through knee-deep water found 33 more bodies in India's remote northeastern state of Assam on Sunday, bringing the death toll from unseasonably heavy rains in South Asia to 177.
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Hurricane Frances lumbered all the way across the Florida peninsula yesterday, dumping more rain over a much larger area than last month&#39;s Hurricane
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More rains are on the way across Africa - and already more than a million people across a swathe of 17 countries already suffering the effects of severe floods.
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Southern California, already soaked from more than a week of downpours, was hit with more rain and snow.
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Indonesia's main island of Java was hit  by further flooding on Tuesday, bringing the total number of  dead or missing people from recent rain-related disasters to  121, officials said.
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Dallas is looking a lot like Seattle these days. Drenching rains pounded the city and north-central Texas again on Wednesday, forcing the precautionary evacuation of thousands of residents from several communities to the west of Fort Worth that were threatened with possible flooding.
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The Japanese mainland is under threat from another typhoon - the second in less than two weeks. Typhoon Tokage has been lashing the southern Okinawa islands with heavy rain and winds gusting above 140 kilometres an hour.
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More heavy rains struck Indonesia's  capital on Thursday, hampering clean-up efforts and piling on  misery for hundreds of thousands of people camping under  make-shift shelters after days of floods.
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Hurricane Frances lumbered all the way across the Florida peninsula Sunday, dumping more rain over a much larger area than last month&#39;s Hurricane
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Torrents of rain flooded homes in central Texas, forcing residents to flee for higher ground as downpours were set to continue into Thursday, media and forecasters said.
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Heavy rain Monday in the San Antonio and Austin areas flooded streets, stranded cars and closed roads. Rising creeks and streams also threatened some homes, forcing residents to move to higher ground.
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Many parts of Scotland are on flood alert as heavy overnight rain filters into the Scottish river system.
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More than a dozen states face a super-soaking and Florida another storm watch this weekend as what&#39;s left of Hurricane Ivan exits and Tropical Storm Jeanne nears.