Amid the despair and the mounting death toll in Germany and Belgium are questions about how such a disaster could have happened. The flooding followed record rainfall in parts of western Europe ...

Torrential rains have led to floods in southwestern Germany. In some places, nearly 100 litres of water per square meter fell within less than a day. In the state of Saarland, water flooded homes ...

The following cable dispatch from the Imperial German Foreign Office at Berlin has been received by S.B. Schlesinger, German Consul here: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Record floods engulfed the historic eastern German city of Dresden today, swamping its Baroque architecture and driving thousands from their homes. A tide of debris-laden brown water also ...

Wind gusts as strong as 120kmh are expected along the Atlantic coast of Brittany. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In the autumn, deadly floods wreaked havoc along an arc from Spain to the Balkans, and from Morocco to Libya. More than 200 people were killed in Valencia in October, not long after a deluge ...

Germany has reaffirmed supporting South Sudan in the fight against hunger, conflict and the impact of floods and droughts, ...