Communities in Nepal impacted by fatal flash flooding will receive £50,000 worth of support funded by officials in Guernsey. The island's government said its Overseas Aid & Development Commission had approved the funding, which will be given to Cornish-based charity Shelterbox's response team in Nepal.

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China passed has 1,000 as rescue teams worked to reach communities cut off by the disaster.

Nepal’s flood disaster death toll has risen sharply as rescue teams continue searching for thousands of missing people. Teams are conducting operations on the ground, from the air and inside hydropower tunnels.

More than 10% of Nepal's energy generation capacity was knocked out by last week's floods.

One week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal.

The devastating flood in Nepal last week could ​result in commercial insurance losses exceeding 20 billion Nepali rupees ($132.3 million), with hydropower projects accounting for most claims, ‌according to a top official at one of the country's leading insurers.

A Toronto woman whose relative is among the missing, said family members have been left scouring the internet, looking on Nepal police sites and missing identity sites to see if the names of any relatives come up.

Nepal has asked the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage for emergency financing after the August 26 Bhote Koshi disaster, putting the fledgling global climate-aid mechanism under pressure before it has made its first funding awards.