US Flood Rescue Stretched to Limit

Major roads are submerged and hospitals evacuated, as Houston faces severe floods. At least two people have died, whilst stranded residents have been told to head onto roof tops to escape the flooding. Also, riot police are deployed in northern India to prevent further violence when a self-styled guru is sentenced for rape, President Macron of France hosts a mini-summit on migration and the Arctic rowers stranded on a tiny Norwegian island.

(Photo: A rescue helicopter hovers as an elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey Credit: REUTERS)