A volcano has erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma, with several violent explosions in the El Paso municipality in the south of the island forcing at least 2000 people to flee the area, according to local media.
Hurricane Ida's toll has risen to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast US states where President Joe Biden is heading next week to assess damage.
The US East Coast is bracing for a direct hit from Hurricane Henri as it threatens to pound the region with fierce winds and heavy rains that could cause "life-threatening" storm surge and flooding, the National Hurricane Centre says.
At least 304 people are dead and hundreds injured or missing after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Three large wildfires have churned across Greece, with one threatening whole towns and cutting a line across Evia, the country's second-largest island, isolating its northern part.
As major fires continue to burn across Greece, an official has said the monuments at Olympia, a key site of antiquity in the country's west, had been saved from approaching flames.
Trucks carrying water and food have streamed into a Chinese city at the centre of flooding that killed at least 63 people, while soldiers laid sandbags to fill gaps in river dykes that left neighbourhoods under water.
Days of landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in western India's Maharashtra state have killed at least 113 people and injured 50, officials say as rescuers scramble to find at least 100 missing.
Rescue teams in India have struggled through thick sludge and debris to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125.
At least 25 people have died in China's flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway line in its capital that was drenched by what weather officials called the heaviest rains for 1000 years.
Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person and adding to the flooding devastation that has claimed the lives of more than 180 people in Europe in recent days.
Rescue workers have searched flood-ravaged parts of western Germany for survivors as water levels remained high in many towns and houses continued to collapse in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century.
