There is a chance of scattered rain Monday in Qatar, may be thundery at north, the Met office said.

A rainy start to the week is expected as the Qatar Met department has forecast thundershowers in the country Sunday along with strong winds and poor visibility.

The rains that have drenched northern California for days were forecast to diminish on Saturday, giving way to clear skies as teams continue their search for the remains of victims of the deadliest wildfire ...

Emergency services renewed their search through charred wreckage of California's deadliest ever wildfire for the nearly 1,000 people still unaccounted for ...

Thunderstorms are back as different parts of the country experienced spells of heavy rain and strong winds Saturday, with more expected Sunday.

The new tragedy comes just days after Typhoon Mangkhut pounded the nation's north with heavy winds and rain, sparking a separate landslide that left dozens dead.

Florence slowly crawled over South and North Carolina, dumping heavy rains on already flood-swollen river basins that authorities warned could bring more death and destruction.

The centre of Florence is expected to hit North Carolina's southern coast on Friday, then drift southwest before moving inland on Saturday.

The wet weather was the first farmers in some areas had seen for more than a year, and even included hail.

Dozens of people are missing and 1.2 million are sheltering in the camps, state officials said, as water receded and a huge clean-up gathered pace.

A vast span of the Morandi bridge caved in during a heavy rainstorm on Tuesday, sending about 35 cars and several trucks plunging 45 metres onto the railway tracks below.

At least 22 people were killed and five critically injured in Tuesday's collapse of a motorway bridge running over the north-western Italian port city of Genoa.