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Singing in the rain - Viral Remake

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World Series Suspended During Game 5

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While You Were Asleep

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Heavy rains pound India; 163 killed over 4 days

LUCKNOW, India - Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 49 people reported killed over the past two days as authorities rushed Tuesday to rescue hundreds of thousands trapped in their homes.

The latest reported deaths brought the toll of those killed by monsoon flooding to 163 over the last four days.

Most of the dead were from India's most populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 32 people were killed by drowning, house collapses and electrocution since Monday, as most rivers in the state spilled their banks, state relief commissioner G.K. Tandon said Tuesday.

Another 70 people were killed over the weekend in the state and floods forced 200,000 people to flee their homes, Tandon said. The state government set up more than 2,000 relief camps across Uttar Pradesh to house the flood survivors.

In eastern Orissa state, the death toll over the last four days from heavy rains and flooding rose to 29, said chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathi. On Monday 17 people were reported to have died.

Authorities evacuated nearly 285,000 people since Friday and put them in 261 state-run relief camps, Tripathi told The Associated Press. Officials were trying to reach an addition 200,000 stranded villagers.

More rain is expected over the next few days and the state government has called in help from the Indian navy, Tripathi said, adding about 650 villages were inundated.

Three Indian air force helicopters were dropping food packages to stranded villagers and 1,300 motor and row boats were rescuing people in the worst hit districts.

Incessant monsoon precipitation caused the Mahanadi river to breach its banks in several places, causing the worst flooding in 26 years in Orissa state.

Another 32 people died in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh over the weekend, most buried by mudslides triggered by heavy rains, news reports said.

The latest floods came just a month after the monsoon-swollen Kosi river, a Ganges tributary that flows from Nepal to India, burst its banks and submerged nearly 1,000 villages in the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least 48 people and driving more than 1 million others from their homes.

The annual monsoon season, which runs from June to September, brings rains that are vital to agriculture in South Asia but also can cause massive destruction. - APLUCKNOW, India - Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 49 people reported killed over the past two days as... more

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Harvesting rain water

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Collect rainwater for just $200

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Vancouver airport at risk of flood

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THE ADVANTAGES OF HYDROSEEDING!

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Love Story: Young WI kayakers circle Lake Superior and celebrate their love

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Hydro Seed Lawncare Maintenance & Tips

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Thousands flee Japan floods

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The weekends are more rainy — and it may be our fault

It seems to happen with depressing frequency - sunny skies turn to rain just as the weekend arrives. Now Spanish researchers say... more

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Olympic Cheerleaders Perform

Photos of the best in spirit boosting from the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. This gallery will be updated throughout the games.

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Bangladesh landslide leaves 14 dead

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Floods in West Africa raise major health risks

Rising flood waters across West Africa are intensifying health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact of the food price crisis. International aid is needed as heavy rains forecast to last until September could exacerbate health threats for conditions including malaria, diarrhoea and other potentially fatal communicable diseases.

"West Africa's annual floods bring with them not only the threat of vector-borne and communicable diseases, but it further endangers the lives of people already malnourished by the food price crisis," said Dr Eric Laroche, Assistant Director-General of WHO's Health Action in Crises Cluster.

Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo need urgent assistance. Flooding has caused widespread damage to bridges, roads, railway lines and other infrastructure vital for delivering health services and humanitarian supplies. Seasonal rains have also caused damage in Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

WHO is responding by providing essential medicines, assessing the health status of the vulnerable populations - particularly children, women and the elderly - and helping raise badly needed humanitarian funding. Some US$ 418 million was requested for West Africa in 2008's revised Consolidated Appeal for the region, of which US$ 76 million was needed for emergency health care. To date, only 22% of the health funding needs have been met.

Endemic and epidemic communicable diseases are common in West Africa, with malaria being the main cause of illness and death in the region. Meningitis, cholera and yellow fever also claim scores of lives annually and cause great human suffering, which is only expected to be intensified due to the extra strains placed by the floods on the health sector. An estimated 5 million people also live with HIV/AIDS in the region, whose health care is further compromised by the flooding.

The destruction of agricultural lands and loss of crops aggravates the food security crisis in the region. Several West African countries are among the 21 worldwide identified by WHO as being most at risk from the food crisis. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are above the global emergency threshold for malnutrition, with over 10% of children under five years of age suffering from acute malnutrition and over 40% with chronic malnutrition. Acute malnutrition develops quickly in vulnerable populations and involves a rapid loss of weight and the greater potential for death, compared with chronic malnutrition (stunting), which develops over a longer time and affects the height and learning abilities of sufferers.

In Benin, the current flooding has displaced at least 150 000 people and raising fears of malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections, especially among children. WHO is helping supply clean water and provide appropriate sanitation, distribute bed nets and essential drugs, and undertake measles vaccinations for children. In Niger, 24 000 people have been displaced, while 12 000 have been displaced in Togo. Rising flood waters across West Africa are intensifying health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact of the food... more