Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming days, authorities in New Zealand's largest city say, as insurers count the costs of what looks likely to be the country's most expensive weather event ever.
The Italian resort island of Ischia has a long history of natural disasters, but experts say this weekend's landslide that has killed eight people and left five missing was exacerbated by a combination of climate change and often-illegal excessive development.
Rescuers in Nepal are battling against torrential rains to pull out bodies from the wreckage of homes buried by a landslide that caused 22 deaths and injured 10 people.
The death toll from landslides and floods that hit the central and southern Philippines after a summer tropical depression unleashed days of pounding rain has risen to at least 43, with 28 others missing.
