
Recovery and aid efforts are underway in parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia where the full number of dead and missing are not yet known after heavy rains and flooding left a devastating toll in the past week.

Authorities in California asked the public for tips on Sunday in finding the person responsible for a shooting a day earlier that left four people dead, three of them children, at a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton and wounded many more.

Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193.