Heavy rains lashed central and southern Chile this weekend, leaving at least two people dead, forcing thousands to evacuate homes, and opening a massive sinkhole that swallowed a car.

India opened all major dam gates in Kashmir due to heavy rains.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia were without power on Sunday after ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings with one person confirmed dead.

Water rushes through the streets and cars lay in piles in the town of Cadaques, in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region.

The death toll from flooding in war-torn Sudan has risen to 132, according to a report from the country's Health Ministry.

UKMTO says it has received a distress call from a vessel off Yemen's southeastern coast, with its crew forced to abandon the ship due to flooding that could not be contained.

Rains returned to Rio Grande do Sul on Friday as the death toll from historic floods in Brazil's southernmost state reached 113.