Dhaka floods 'worst in decades'
261835
Offices and transport shut down in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka as floods inundate nearly all main roads.
484462
Key failings identified in response to summer floods in England that caused billions of pounds in damage
200844
Thousands of people in Britain were left stranded in villages and towns Monday during the worst flooding in 60 years, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown linked to climate change.
657477
Floods, landslides and lightning strikes have left dozens dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said Monday.
529529
Thousands of people in southwest  England had electricity and water supplies cut on Monday after  torrential rain deluged whole towns with water in some of the  worst flooding for more than 50 years.
375941
Hospitals in the Indonesian capital were overwhelmed on Tuesday with hundreds of flood victims suffering from water-borne diseases after the city's worst flooding in five years.
77887
At least 161 people have died in China as the country battles the worst flooding in a century. Villages downstream on the Yangtze River are braced for further deluges and water levels are expected to peak
14196
Heavy rain will return to the country later this week, forecasters at the Met Office warned Thursday, threatening more of the floods that killed four people.
246622
In 1970, a powerful cyclone killed nearly half a million people along the impoverished coastline of Bangladesh. Some 138,000 people perished in yet another cyclone that mauled its coastline two decades later.
677498
Floodwaters from upstream India have swamped some 80 villages in southwestern Bangladesh, marooning at least 65,000 people, officials said Sunday.
604728
Flood waters in parts of England were near 60-year highs on Monday, leaving tens of thousands of people without water and electricity where rivers have broken their banks.
20330
Parts of the UK are at a "serious" risk of flooding on Sunday, according to the Environment Agency.
368003
Unseasonably heavy downpours have triggered landslides and submerged large areas in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal for the past three days, leaving at least 144 people dead, officials said.
32025
The Mozambique authorities say flooding could be cause more damage than those of seven years ago.
426237
Communities devastated by last summer's flooding face prospect of more chaos after forecasters predicted week of severe weather
476360
More rain in Indonesia's capital Jakarta hampers clean-up efforts after some of the worst flooding in years.
551378
The victims of the latest floods in Mozambique may take longer to put their lives back together than those caught in the devastating downpours of seven years ago, the Red Cross warned Thursday.