51.   Pounding rains in recent weeks have caused floods in many areas of southern Mindanao region, an important agricultural region.

52.   Pounding rain in recent weeks has caused floods in many areas of the southern Mindanao region, an important agricultural area.

53.   Rains which lashed northern Italy for three consecutive days also caused minor floods in some parts of the Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto regions.

54.   Scientists say that the greenhouse effect is a serious problem, causing floods in some areas and deserts in others as temperatures continue to rise worldwide.

55.   Six people died as heavy rains caused floods in towns and along roads and rail lines in southern and eastern Spain on Thursday, news reports said.

56.   Similar storms in Central America caused floods that killed seven people in Honduras and Nicaragua.

57.   That pipe burst, causing the flood.

58.   The floods have been caused by heavy monsoon rains, and more are expected next week in the north and northeast provinces.

59.   The floods have been caused by weeks of heavy rains that have swelled the Mekong and other rivers in Laos, a poor, agricultural country.

60.   The floods were caused by a storm system that arrived late Saturday after lumbering northeastward from Oklahoma, where hundreds of families were evacuated earlier that day.