Travellers stranded after floods
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Flash floods that hit parts of Britain on Friday leave motorists and rail travellers stuck overnight.
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More than 50 people were airlifted to safety after landslides caused by violent rain trapped cars on a road in Scotland, just days after flash floods devastated a tourist village in southwest England.
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Worst flooding for a decade leaves up to 1.5 million in need of emergency help.
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LONDON -- Thousands of disgruntled vacationers were stranded at Heathrow Airport yesterday after British Airways canceled scores of flights because of staff shortages and technical hitches.
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A rescue boat is brought in to help five people trapped in a building after flash floods in south Wales.
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Indonesian relief and rescue workers used a helicopter and rubber boats on Monday to deliver aid and rescue people marooned on Java island after massive flooding triggered by days of torrential rain.
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Floods hit areas of north-west and central England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Friday, disrupting car and rail traffic and leading to the disappearance of a soldier on exercises, officials said.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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Thousands of commuters are warned of perilous travelling conditions as temperatures fall following flooding.
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Three people were missing after flash floods tore through a popular coastal tourist area in southwest England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds feared trapped.
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Some 200 passengers of a car ferry from Britain were stranded off France for some nine hours overnight because another ferry had broken down and could not free the berth in the northern port of Dieppe, regional authorities said.
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Floods in eastern India have left nearly a million people stranded, authorities said Saturday, as the nationwide death toll from torrential monsoon rains hit 655.
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Villages are inundated and several thousand people stranded after flash floods in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Heavy rain is leading to flooding across Northern Ireland and is making driving conditions  treacherous.
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Three people were dead and hundreds were stranded on Monday as torrential downpours caused widespread chaos and the worst floods seen in northern England in years.
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Indonesian rescuers, police and troops in inflatable boats have helped evacuate Jakarta residents stranded in severe floods that have killed 29, as the number left homeless approached 350,000.
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Helicopters dropped urgently needed supplies Thursday in coastal areas where some 800,000 people were stranded by monsoon-spawned flooding, officials said.