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People use a boat to rescue people stranded in their houses after heavy rain fall caused flooding in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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 Denver Post 
Floods ravage northwest Pakistan, kill 430 people
Sat 31 Jul 2010
An exhausted boy naps in his flooded house in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach cut-off villagers. More rain is expected over the next several days. The U.N. said... (photo: AP / B.K.Bangash)
A Pakistan army helicopter evacuates stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.
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 Khaleej Times 
Pakistan monsoon floods kill more than 400
Sat 31 Jul 2010
Rescue workers and troops in Pakistan were on Saturday struggling to reach thousands of people affected by the worst floods in living memory as the death toll rose past 400. Hundreds of homes and vast... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)
A Myanmar farmer ploughs rice paddy in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Monday, July 5, 2010.  Wall Street Journal  Sat 31 Jul 2010
Myanmar Loosens Yoke on Farmers
By A WSJ Staff Reporter YANGON, Myanmar—Moves by Myanmar's military regime to loosen its grip on the impoverished nation's once-mighty rice industry in advance of an election this year have... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win)
Agriculture   Elections   Myanmar   Photos   Wikipedia: Burma
British Airways planes sit on the tarmac at Heathrow terminal 5 in London, Thursday, May 20, 2010.  The Independent  Sat 31 Jul 2010
BA takes £250m hit from ash and strikes
Despite improving performance, British Airways was dragged down to a £164m pre-tax loss in the first quarter by the £250m cost of cabin crew strikes and the volcanic ash cloud, the carrier... (photo: AP / Odd Andersen)
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Pakistani villagers collect fixtures off their wall which collapsed due to heavy flood in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. The New York Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
400 Killed in Flooding in Pakistan, Officials Say
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than 400 people have died and thousands of others were made homeless as some of the worst floods in Pakistan’s history hit this... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)
Floods   Pakistan   Photos   Aid
Virgin atlantic The Independent Fri 30 Jul 2010
Virgin upbeat despite operating loss
Sir Richard Branson's airline Virgin Atlantic announced today that it made a big operating loss last year but that revenues and passenger numbers rose in the first part... (photo: Public Domain / Arpingstone)
Aerospace   Photos   Transport   UK   Wikipedia: Virgin Atlantic Airways
File:Airbus A319 British Airways MUC.jpg BBC News Fri 30 Jul 2010
British Airways reports £164m loss
British Airways has revealed a steep loss for the April-to-June quarter after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud from... (photo: Creative Commons / User:My name)
Aerospace   Photos   Transport   UK   Wikipedia: British Airways
Local residents carry buckets of water to extinguishes a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. The Star Thu 29 Jul 2010
Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a leading forecaster said, adding that the unprecedentedly long heatwave... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
Health   Moscow   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Heat wave
The Fleischbrücke (German for "Meat bridge") or Pegnitzbrücke ("Pegnitz Bridge") is a late Renaissance bridge in Nürnberg, Germany. The bridge crosses the river Pegnitz in the center of the old town, linking the districts St. Sebald and St. Lorenz along the axis of the main market. The single-arch bridge was built between 1596 and 1598 and replaced an earlier mixed construction of stone and wood which had been repeatedly destroyed by flood. Herald Tribune Thu 29 Jul 2010
Rivers burst, floods kill at least 28 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains in Pakistan this week, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 28 people in the... (photo: Creative Commons / Jailbird)
Disaster   Floods   Monsoon   Photos   Rivers
Rains wreak havoc in Pakistan, 52 killed Zeenews Thu 29 Jul 2010
Rains wreak havoc in Pakistan, 52 killed
Peshawar: A fresh spell of monsoon rains has wreaked havoc across Pakistan, as at least 52 people have been killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and the Federally... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Monsoon   Pakistan   Photos   Rain


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