Dozens of people evacuated their flooded homes on Saturday as Hurricane Norbert lashed the Baja California peninsula in Mexico with torrential rains and screaming winds.

Floods triggered by Typhoon Hagupit have killed at least 41 people and injured more than 60 others in northern Vietnam, disaster officials said on Monday.

More than 21 million people and over 394 square miles have been affected by the flooding, according to the government.

A powerful hurricane was gathering strength as it headed for Haiti, where it was expected to make landfall later in the day before moving on to the Gulf of Mexico.

The weekend brought two of the clearest summer days in recent memory in Beijing, a city where air quality often ranks among the worst in the world.

Rising temperatures around the globe are linked to extreme downpours and flooding, researchers said on Thursday.

The approach of severe tropical storm Kammuri affected businesses, government offices, financial markets and schools.

In all, 11 lives were lost in the worst episode on K2 since 13 climbers died over a two-week span in 1986, and one of the worst disasters in mountaineering history.

Hong Kong?s meteorological agency issued an early warning of a strong storm arriving in the days before the Olympic equestrian events start.

Typhoon Fung Wong struck Taiwan early Monday, closing schools and businesses and grounding domestic and international air traffic.