11.   Heavy rain damaged thousands of homes, forced hundreds of people to flee rising waters and wiped out dozens of bridges, roads and dams.

12.   Others are in desperate need of rescue from rising flood waters.

13.   Residents in low lying and flood prone areas should remain alert and move immediately to higher ground should rising water threaten.

14.   Rising flood waters in northeastern India have inundated the famous Kaziranga wildlife park, forcing almost all the animals to flee, the United News of India reported .

15.   Rising water poured over the top of the Lake Wackena dam three miles southeast of Goldsboro and washed out the spillway, said National Guard Maj. Dave Culbreth.

16.   Australian legal experts warned the government Monday not to disregard threats by the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu to sue Australia over rising sea waters caused by climate change.

17.   Disease has broken out in flood-ravaged southern China where relief workers are battling to contain rising waters, officials said Thursday.

18.   Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed ordered troops and rescue workers on alert as people were took shelter on rooftops and embankments to escape rising waters.