Flood

Flooding moves farther downstream in devasted Iowa, displacing 30,000 people. In Cedar Rapids,  more than 1000 blocks of the downtown area are under filthy polluted water.

The deluge in China continues, forcing over a million from thier homes and killing fifty seven so far.

Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, with the flow of international aid almost at a standstill, the UN said Thursday.

 In southern Pakistan, floods continue to cause havoc with water surging from the province of Sindh to neighbouring Balochistan. In the centre of the country entire towns and cities have

The death toll from the mudslides in a northwestern Chinese province now stands at 1,407, state-run Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing the government.

The chief meteorologist in Pakistan says that the floods that have left nearly one-fifth the country underwater

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan.

The search for survivors in northwestern China is growing desperate in the wake of flash floods and landslides that have killed hundreds and disrupted the lives of millions more across Asia.

Rescue workers were struggling to save more than 27,000 people trapped by massive flooding in north-western Pakistan, as the death toll topped 1,400.

A nine-mile-long Iowa lake has disappeared after heavy rains led a dam holding back its waters to collapse. Lake Delhi in eastern Iowa drained through the breached dam within hours on Saturday