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Flooded water surrounding the banks of the river Zab Asfal in Altun Kubri, some 50 kilometres south or Arbil, after torrential rains caused flash floods in northern Iraq killing several. IMAGES
In Tartas, in the south-west Landes region of France, officers from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service navigate by boat on the river Midouze, which has burst its banks to flood the town for the fourth time in two months. IMAGES
Footage courtesy of Mark Giambrone shows waterfalls running down the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Central Australia on Sunday, after heavy rainfall and flooding forced the famous national park to close. Flash floods hit Central Australia on Sunday. The park rangers decided to close the park due to the risk of car accidents and flooding. The rangers are continuing to assess the situation every two hours until the park is safe to reopen. The storm was described as "once-in-a-half-century weather" by the Bureau of Meteorology, with two and a half inches of rainfall registered in one hour alone.
Dozens of homes including a facility for the elderly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland are underwater after the River Don overflows its banks overnight. Diane Hodges reports.
Heavy rain and floods have left river islands and swathes of land in the province of Corrientes in northern Argentina underwater, causing deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate. Officials have laid the blame for the extreme weather on the El Nino phenomenon, is typically associated with warming ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. IMAGES
Construction workers walk along the streets in a flood-affected area following heavy rains that battered the capital city of Beijing. IMAGES