causing flash floods. Human-caused climate change has doubled the likelihood of drenching storms like the one that hit Indonesia this week, and the one that turned streets in the eastern Spanish region of Valencia into raging rivers earlier this month ...

Indonesian rescuers are searching for passengers trapped in a minibus buried in mud after flash floods and landslides hit several locations in North Sumatra province, killing at least 27, an official said on Thursday (Nov 28).

Torrential rain in the province since last week had caused flash floods and landslides in four different districts of Sumatra.