Sources: BBC
The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall. 2025-07-7
The United Kingdom parliament votes to approve a bill allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. 2025-06-20
Interpol announces its first successful identification for Operation Identify Me. A murder victim found in a river in Antwerp, Belgium in 1992 is identified as a woman from Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. 2023-11-14
Flash flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains kill at least 19 people and leave hundreds more homeless in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. This brings the total death toll from flooding in the country to more than 50 people since the start of the wet season. 2022-01-31
Lockdown restrictions are relaxed in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as the number of cases continues to reduce, with non-essential shops, pubs, gyms, restaurants, hairdressers, community centres, libraries, and theme parks permitted to reopen. Domestic holidays are also permitted again in England with members of the same household. A "stay at home" order is ended in Northern Ireland, and secondary school pupils from years 8–11 return to school. 2021-04-12
Heavy rain triggers flash floods killing 10 people in Tehran and southern Iran, with eight others missing. 2015-09-19
Voters in England and the Isle of Anglesey in Wales go to the polls for local elections. 2013-05-2
Flash flood warnings are issued in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland. 2011-09-7
The US National Weather Service issues a flash flood warning after the Missouri River breaches a levee near Hamburg, Iowa. 2011-06-13