National library building flooded
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Scotland's largest library, which is home to first editions and the country's film archive, is badly flooded.
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Considering just how much water has passed under the political bridge that binds them, it was perhaps appropriate that four presidents sat in a downpour yesterday to dedicate Bill Clinton&#39;s presidential library.
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Much of Britain has been under flood alert as heavy rain sweeps across the country.
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A fire that ripped through one of Germany's most precious historical libraries destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of irreplaceable books, although some 6,000 works, including a 1543 Martin Luther Bible, were spirited to safety by a chain of people, officials said Friday.
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Nearly a century of wear and an infamous civil rights-era bombing have cracked some of the walls of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and water leaks are destroying its ground floor.
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Flood damage kept the National Museum of American History and the National Archives closed Friday at the start of the busy Independence Day holiday weekend.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 people homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas of Jakarta, officials said on Sunday.
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Each Northern Ireland household seriously damaged as a result of Tuesday's flooding is to get Â£1,000.
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"Rainfall-wise, the worst is over, certainly for the working week"  Gasoline-powered pumps roared into action Tuesday as stunned Britons tried to dry out their houses after the worst flooding in more than half a century. via Ann Arbor News
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By Barbara Dunn  WHAT sort of principles are we instilling in our young today?   I, along with other bungalow-dwellers, fell victim to floods and awoke to find our homes under water. I was trapped inside unable to get out until the fire brigade arrived.
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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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Firefighters attend more than 100 calls   after torrential rain brings flooding, with a woman rescued from a basement.
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The Treasury Department, next door to the White House, was evacuated Wednesday after a pipe burst on the second floor of the building.
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Flooding in Carlisle leaves schools and roads closed and the city's court and hospital running skeleton services.
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The new Â£431m Scottish Parliament building suffers flood damage weeks before it is due to open.
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A photographic look at the damage caused by the worst floods to hit the country in 60 years