Worst floods to hit South Asia in decade expose lack of monsoon planning
Most government action in India has been focused on relief, with weak early warning systems and too little focus on prevention
Cameroon frees dozens of English-speaking activists; others still held
"I was in jail for five months. My mother couldn't visit me"
Top Indian court to hear Rohingya deportation case amid Myanmar violence
"You can't send somebody away to face certain death in another country"
Modi's $87 billion river-linking gamble set to take off as floods hit India
Government hopes project will cut farmers' dependence on fickle monsoon rains by bringing millions of hectares of cultivatable land under irrigation
Texas city loses water, 44 dead, but thousands of Harvey survivors rescued
Some 779,000 Texans have been told to leave their homes and another 980,000 fled voluntarily amid dangers of new flooding from swollen rivers and reservoirs
Bodies wash up on Bangladesh shore as Rohingya flee Myanmar
Around 27,400 Rohingya cross into Bangladesh since Friday
Rohingya women, children die in desperate boat escape from Myanmar
"We left after the army came early yesterday. They burned houses and shot many people. We ran away so they couldn't find us"
Commercial drones face unprecedented test in Harvey's destructive wake
"Harvey is an opportunity to see whose drones are capable and whose are merely toys"
Cholera hits camp for displaced in northeast Nigeria
"Following heavy rains, the camp is partly flooded, making the already poor sanitary conditions at the camp even worse"
Floods kill 13, swamp streets in Pakistani city of Karachi
Karachi's deluge came a day after India's financial centre, Mumbai, was hit with floods that killed 14 people