By Saurabh Sharma, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Flood-hit Nepal will ask wealthier countries and global agencies for financial help this week, arguing they should contribute to the $5 billion needed for initial rebuilding as the disaster shows how climate change has hit poor countries that did little to cause it,

A string of miracle rescues in recent days has kept hopes alive that more people might still be saved from the catastrophe of August 26 when a glacier collapsed, sending a mass of mud and rock crashing into a river along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet.

Two Minnesota doctors and their two family members are among those missing after devastating flooding in Nepal, according to family and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ishan Patel and his wife, Dr.

More than 3,000 people are still missing after catastrophic flash floods hit following a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region.

Six South African nationals remain unaccounted for following the devastating flash floods in Nepal, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) confirmed on Thursday.

A doctor who recently completed a fellowship at the University of Minnesota and three family members, including his wife who was a former psychiatrist at Mercy Hospital – Unity Campus, were reported m

Satellite images show the destruction caused by Nepal’s deadly floods. The cost of losses and damage is expected to run to several billion dollars.

“The town was gone in a blink,” Miya recounts, now sitting in his home in Turhapatti village of Bihar, India, just across the Nepal border. “There were only three kinds of people who survived that day: Those who were out of town, those who were at work and managed to run, and those who lived a little higher up the hill.”