Lakia McDuffie was sleeping in her fourth-floor apartment at Wingate Towers & Gardens in Southwest Washington when a light flooding into her bedroom woke her up. Then her windows rattled. She wondered what was going on. It was a plane landing at Reagan National Airport . Since that night in the spring, incoming airliners have regularly flown by her building at late hours, McDuffie said. Read full article > >

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D.C. communities all shook up as Reagan National-bound planes change their landing patterns

A night of torrential rain causes flooding across much of central, west and southern Scotland.

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Heavy rain causes floods on roads

Occupy Wall Street protesters camped outside City Hall in Los Angeles defy an eviction deadline, with some 1,000 people flooding into the area.

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Occupy LA defy eviction deadline

Flooding and strong winds cause travel disruption in several parts of Scotland, prompting road closures and bridge restrictions.

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Severe weather disrupting travel

A Draperstown councillor said it is a miracle no-one has been killed using a river crossing which is liable to flooding.

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Flooded road ‘could claim lives’

A mother and her two children are rescued from flooding by firefighters in lifejackets in Draperstown, County Londonderry.

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The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of industrialization in Thailand and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made in the country.

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Thai Floods Wash Over Global Supply Chains

More than 500 people are now known to have died in months of flooding in Thailand, say officials, as efforts continue to protect the capital, Bangkok.

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Thai flood death toll ‘tops 500′

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra expresses optimism that central Bangkok will escape flooding, as defences hold despite high tides.

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Thailand PM upbeat over flooding

Heavy rain causes flooding and problems for drivers in various parts of Northern Ireland.

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Cash aid pledge for flood victims

One of Thailand’s largest industrial estates is evacuated due to flooding, as officials say most of Bangkok appears to have escaped the deluge.

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Key Thai business park evacuated

Every year, about 1 percent of Japanese 15-year-olds turn away from high school. Then they turn into full-time nerds-in-training, enrolling in colleges where they make robots and write software, test diodes and study English, dirty their hands on factory floors and wait for job offers to come flooding in. Read full article > >

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More than two hundred people have died in monsoon flooding in Thailand since mid-July, officials say, as more heavy rain is forecast.

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Thailand flood deaths exceed 200

The storm revealed an uncomfortable truth: Much of New York’s new development has been in areas most at risk of flooding.

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In Irene’s Wake, Are New Developments High and Dry Enough?

People in Fairfax County’s Huntington community who waded from their homes during last month’s devastating flash floods have had it up to their necks with something more than water. Every time Cameron Run floods their homes, government officials show up, tour the wreckage and promise remedies. New studies of the flooding are undertaken. Solutions such as levees, dredging and floodwalls are proposed. Yet, nothing gets done. Read full article > >

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Fairfax County flood victims at a crossroads