Heavy rain continued to cause chaos across the UAE into Sunday morning.
Natural disaster
Australia fire
In pictures: Australia’s catastrophic bushfires
Skies turn black and ash rains down as fires rage across southeastern Australia, threatening power supplies to major cities and prompting the call-up of 3,000 military reservists.
california fire
In pictures: Deadliest wildfire in California
The number of dead in a wildfire raging in California rose to 29 on Sunday, matching the deadliest in the state’s history
Heavy rain in Kuwait
Kuwaiti Minister of Public Works resigns amid flooding fallout
Hossam Al-Roumi has expressed ‘deep regret’ for damages to property and infrastructure during the deadly floods
Heavy rain in Kuwait
One dead in flooding as heavy rains hit Kuwait
The Kuwaiti army and the national guard launched search operations as authorities set aside several locations to receive residents threatened by flooding
extreme flooding
In pictures: Super typhoon Mangkhut rocked Hong Kong en route to mainland China after killing 64 in Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into mainland China late on Sunday after leaving a trail of destruction in Hong Kong and Macau and killing at least 64 people in the northern Philippines. The world’s biggest storm this year felled trees and sent skyscrapers swaying in high-rise Hong Kong, injuring more than 200 people there before making landfall on the coast of Jiangmen city, in southern China’s Guangdong province.
Aviation
Emirates airline, Etihad Airways resume flights to Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific Airways scrapped more than 400 flights over the weekend, while Cathay Dragon and Hong Kong Airlines grounded their fleets
extreme flooding
Typhoon Mangkhut barrels towards China as Philippines toll rises
The world’s biggest storm this year left large expanses in the north of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon underwater
Barrier Island
In pictures: Monster storm Florence dumping ‘epic amounts of rainfall’ in US
Authorities on Saturday warned residents displaced by a killer hurricane that its devastation was far from over, as Florence dumped “epic amounts of rainfall” across the southeastern United States, bringing catastrophic flooding and up to 13 deaths.
Aviation
Almost 900 Hong Kong flights cancelled ahead of dangerous typhoon
Hong Kong International Airport said ferry services between the airport and all of the Pearl River Delta ports had been suspended until further notice
Kerala
India flood toll triples to 324, warnings of worst to come
Hundreds of troops and local fishermen are staging desperate rescue attempts with helicopters and boats across Kerala following floods and landslides
Alexis Tsipras
Rescuers scour scorched towns after Greece wildfires kill at least 74
Firefighters are still searching for more victims and taking ‘dozens of calls’ from people looking for relatives
Flood
Heavy rain and landslides hit Japan – in pictures
Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 141 lives in one of Japan’s worst weather-related disasters for decades. With the toll mounting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cancelled a four-country foreign trip, and he was expected to visit the disaster-hit region later this week.
Flood
Japan PM cancels Saudi trip as rain toll hits 100
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now expected to visit some of the areas worst affected by the flash flooding and landslides
Construction
Video: Origami-inspired skyscraper designed for disaster zones
Polish architects came in first in eVolo Magazine’s 2018 Skyscraper Competition. It was designed to aid when natural disasters strike.
Earthquake
Scramble for survivors as quake flattens Mexico City buildings
Quake ravaged the far-flung region of more than 20 million people