Sydney, Australia's most populous city, braced for more rain on Sunday after being drenched by heavy downpours over the past week.

Flooding on Australia's east coast claimed another life overnight, bringing the death toll from the extreme weather to six as a "rain bomb" continued to move south Sunday.

The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 146, including 26 children.

Residents in several neighborhoods of the devastated Brazilian city of Petropolis have been called to evacuate after floods and landslides killed 117 people.

The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050 because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday.

Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state kill at least 18 people.

Floods around South Africa's eastern coastal city of East London kill at least 10 people and leave hundreds homeless since the weekend.

Iranian President Raeisi orders his energy minister to visit the country’s provinces hardly hit by floods and follow up on the relief operations underway in the affected areas.

Heavy rains and flash floods in northeast Brazil have killed at least 18 people, injured 280 others and displaced more than 35,000 local residents.

More than 11,000 people have been displaced in the Brazilian state of Bahia due to flooding.