GERMANY-WEATHER-FLOODS

An aerial view shows summer houses flooded by water from the River Danube near the Bavarian village Deggendorf, southern Germany, on June 6, 2013. Germany pushed on with frantic efforts to secure saturated river dykes with sandbags on June 6, 2013, bracing for a surge of the worst floods in over a decade that have claimed 12 lives and forced mass evacuations across central Europe. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE