causing "considerable damage" to the outside of his home in Fleckney, Leicestershire. Mr Owens said the storm lasted no more than 20 minutes, but still caused floods in the centre of the village ...

Fleckney sits amongst some of South Leicestershire's prettiest ... x 12'1") - A room that is full of character with a large feature window allowing light to flood the space. There is a fitted wardrobe ...

When Tropical Storm Debby came through Pinellas County, Florida in early August, Danielle Jensen thought her home was protected with flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

“Extreme events are getting stronger everywhere, so we should expect floods to be bigger regardless of where we are,” said Michael Wehner, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

While it’s difficult to draw a conclusive link between this event and climate change, experts say the most severe floods to hit the region in at least two decades fit into a broader pattern of ...

Ms. Bunu was speaking on Friday from the bed of a truck that she managed to board with her children after several days of sheltering at various sites across the flood-stricken city. The ...

"We are suffering. We could not eat for the past three days. We have nowhere to live as the flood washed away all our belongings," Maryamu Daniel said, her family sheltering under a tree.

That amount of rain in that period of time qualifies as a so-called 1,000-year flood expected only once in a that era, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Wilmington said.

The death toll was rising in Central European countries on Sunday after days of heavy rains caused widespread flooding and forced mass evacuations. Several Central European nations have already ...

“The flood brought down the walls of the correctional facilities, including the medium security custodial center Maiduguri (MSCC) as well as the staff quarters in the city,” he said. Umar ...

At least 17 people have been killed in some of the worst floods to hit central Europe in decades as Storm Boris sweeps through the region, dumping well over a month’s worth of rain. Austria ...

The first estimations show that the cost of the current floods alone could surpass a billion euros, but the precise costs are yet to be summed up as the torrential rain from Storm Boris keeps ...