La Niña fury causing floods around the world: South Africa, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines

Floods and mudslides in Brazil have killed more than 330 people, with more feared dead after three towns just north of Rio De Janeiro were hit on Wednesday.

A month's worth of rain fell in one day in parts of Rio De Janeiro state and roads and bridges were swept away by the mud. ...

Meanwhile, heavy monsoon rains on Wednesday kept Sri Lanka’s president from visiting areas inundated by flooding that has killed 18 people, forced 196,000 from their homes across a third of the nation, and threatened food supply. Nearly a fifth of Sri Lanka’s rice paddies are either destroyed or under standing water that could wipe out the crop, the Agriculture Ministry said, raising concerns over supply shocks and higher food inflation for Sri Lanka’s staple food. ...

At least 30 people may have been killed and about a thousand homes damaged by floods in South Africa in the past week.

Heavy rains have hit Johannesburg and Pretoria as well as provinces in the northeast and eastern parts of the country. ...

An image has emerged from Sri Lanka of a dead elephant calf stuck high in a tree after getting caught up in the country's fast-flowing floods.

The animal was found near the Kaloya river in northern Sri Lanka, which rose 18ft (5.5m) above its normal height. ...