By Matthew Rosenberg, Associated Press NEW DELHI -- The death toll from this year's calamitous South Asian monsoons had surpassed 2,000 by Friday after a wild storm hit Pakistan's largest city.

By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI - Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 530 people.

By Biswajeet Banerjee Associated Press LUCKNOW, India -- Floodwaters receded in parts of monsoon-soaked South Asia on Monday but the death toll rose to 347, officials said. Millions remain displaced and homeless, and authorities fear waterborne disease could spread.

A village submerged in Darbhanga, in the Indian state of Bihar; right, a family in Sirajgonj, Bangladesh MONSOON rains and floods have killed at least 178 people and displaced another 19m in India and Bangladesh, officials said yesterday.

By Wasbir Hussain, Associated Press GAUHATI, India -- Teeming monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away villages and farmland that 19 million people depend on, officials said Thursday.