Amid the despair and the mounting death toll in Germany and Belgium are questions about how such a disaster could have happened. The flooding followed record rainfall in parts of western Europe ...

Torrential rains have led to floods in southwestern Germany. In some places, nearly 100 litres of water per square meter fell within less than a day. In the state of Saarland, water flooded homes ...

Dozens of people have died and many more are missing after severe floods in Germany. Other areas of Europe, such as Belgium and the Netherlands, have also been badly affected. People in Moscow ...

Flooding in western Europe after days of heavy rain caused houses to collapse. With around 170 people reported dead and many more missing, officials said the German government and Parliament would ...

Floods have killed at least 89 people in Germany, Russia, Austria and the Czech Republic over the last week, after torrential rains sent a huge surge of water through river systems. At least 10 ...

BERLIN, July 18. /TASS/. The number of casualties in the devastating flood in western Germany has reached at last 156, Koblenz police reported Sunday. The death toll in the Ahrweiler district ...

"Vladimir Putin once again expressed his condolences to Angela Merkel over the unprecedented floods in western Germany, which caused numerous human casualties and massive destruction," the ...

Where do they wind up? The answer, overwhelmingly, is found here on the western edge of Germany, in the urban quilt around the Rhine and Main rivers. It is here, the booming heartland of the world’s ...

The floods destroyed houses, roads and railway lines in a vast area that used to be part of the former East Germany. Years of infrastructure investment were suddenly swept away. Although the ...