The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Exclusive: Unicef-commissioned report shows being unable to finish high school – and the associated wage loss – is the most significant impact of increasingly frequent disasters on young people

While motorcycles tend to be able to traverse water crossings and rivers and streams, it's a bad idea to wade through floodwaters, as downed powerlines can lead to being electrocuted, as one guy recently found out.

Two Philippine senators have been implicated in a massive corruption scandal involving flood-control projects

Rescuers backed by the military have evacuated nearly 100,000 people from a central Pakistani city after floodwaters submerged homes and farmland

At least 50 lives lost. Over 2,000 villages submerged. Punjab is in the grip of its worst flood disaster since 1988, with more than 20 lakh people affected and 3.87 lakh displaced in all 23 districts.

Downpours threatening lives and property this autumn will not provide respite from months of dry weather

A wealthy business couple has identified several Philippine congressmen and public works officials, alleging they forced them to pay huge kickbacks so they could secure lucrative flood-control projects from the government in explosive testimony during a nationally televised Senate investigation

Authorities issue new evacuation warnings to communities near the Chenab, Sutlej, and Ravi rivers.

Officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region