The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Pakistani health officials are reporting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the flood-affected areas

Brisbane City Council says it has completed 12 recommendations from this year's flood review as the opposition ramps up calls for more sandbagging facilities and details on new evacuation centres.

Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood water

“Literally a third of the country is under water,” Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman warned this week, after the death toll from the nation’s devastating floods topped 1,100 after record monsoon rains. The torrential downpours come after a series of heat waves, highlighting Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change.

Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal at a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan, looked on in alarm as some students passed out from the heat - the city was the world's hottest at one point in May.

The Chief Minister said that due to heavy rains in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, water levels in the rivers have increased leading to floods in few districts.

NICOLA Sturgeon's government faces calls to send further aid to the victims of Pakistan's floods as one third of the country is under water.

Colonialism and its aftereffects have left regions such as south Punjab resource-starved, poverty-stricken and deeply vulnerable to floodwaters, says Yale University’s Shozab Raza

Officials in Pakistan are raising concerns about the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the country