LOME, Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) - Heavy rain has left 20 people dead and 58 injured in northern Togo, the government said Thursday.

Non-stop rain for several days also washed away or damaged 22,000 huts, more than 100 bridges and 46 schools and colleges, along with 1,500 hectares (3,750 acres) of food crops, and made 34,000 people homeless.

The government already declared three days of national mourning on first reports of the disaster in the Kpendjal region, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) north of Lome.

SEOUL, Aug 12, 2007 (AFP) - North Korea has reported widespread damage to homes, railways and roads following heavy rains that battered the nation last week, in a rare admission of problems within the reclusive country.

'Officials and working people in various parts of the country have turned out as one in the relief and rehabilitation activities,' the official Korean Central News Agency said.

'A large acreage of land under cultivation' has been washed away or buried, with roads, railways, houses and public buildings destroyed, it added.

BARCELONA, Spain, Aug 8, 2007 (AFP) - Extensive power cuts hit parts of Barcelona again Wednesday, while Spain's second city has still not recovered from a previous massive outage two weeks ago.

Heavy overnight rain was blamed for the latest incidents, which saw part of the city centre and a number of suburbs deprived of electricity, bringing commuter trains and the airport link to a halt.

National train operator Renfe said lightning had struck overhead wires.

LONDON, July 26, 2007 (AFP) - The three-month period from May to July has already become the wettest in history here, even before the end of the month, Britain`s Met Office said Thursday.

Figures released by the weather forecasting agency showed that 387.6 millimetres (15.3 inches) of rain has fallen across England and Wales, the most since records were first kept in 1766.

The Met Office release comes amid Britain`s worst flooding in 60 years, with hundreds of thousands left without drinking water, and several thousands without electricity.