41.   Firefighters and other emergency workers were placed on high alert Friday across the province of Lower Austria after rivers swollen from torrential rains overflowed their banks.

42.   Fifteen rivers on the coastal plain have overflowed their banks.

43.   Flooding also affected several major cities in the north and especially the northeast, where the Mekong River was overflowing its banks.

44.   Further south, the Juba River has already crested and overflowed its banks.

45.   Heavy rains flooded fields and overflowed river banks, officials said.

46.   Heavy downpours on Monday and Tuesday caused two rivers, the Sutlej and Andhara, to overflow their banks.

47.   Heavy rain that began Monday in the state of Himachal Pradesh caused two rivers, the Sutlej and Andhara rivers, to overflow their banks.

48.   In northeastern Rio de Janeiro, near the border with Minas Gerais, rain-swollen rivers overflowed their banks, covering roads and isolating seven towns.

49.   In northeastern South Dakota, Lake Kampeska overflowed its banks Thursday, sending knee-high water into driveways and yards in Watertown.

50.   In Quezon City in metropolitan Manila, dozens of people were rescued by rubber boats from rooftops after a rain-swollen creek overflowed its banks.