61.   With the annual summer rains expected soon, Taylor said steps must be taken to kill the locusts now or it would be harder to eradicate them.

62.   Yangtze floodwaters, caused by summer rains that fell heavier and earlier than usual, have displaced millions of people and inundated vast stretches of rich farmland.

63.   Forty-four people in Malawi have died from cholera since the onset of summer rains, while thousands more have been affected, health officials told AFP Saturday.

64.   When the usual summer rains fail at harvest time in January and February the sugars in the grapes are not diluted and threats of disease and mildew are avoided.

65.   Other states could also expect below average summer rains.

66.   Pollution from plastic bags reaches serious proportions in Bombay during the summer rains when thousands of discarded bags clog drains and cause flooding.