21.   Eight hundred people in Fujairah were housed in schools after rain flooded their village.

22.   The rain, which followed a prolonged drought, caused previously dry rivers to burst their banks, flooding the villages of Palapye and Mahalapye.

23.   Wealth, colour, white skins and foreign languages have flooded the village, but the surge of prosperity is such that no-one here seems to complain.

24.   The Meuse river which broke its banks and flooded most villages along its path in Belgium this week was receding Wednesday, especially in the town of Dinant.