With deadly floods leaving a trail of destruction in Germany, soldiers today dropped huge sandbags from army helicopters as part of efforts to stem the surging waters of the swollen River Elbe ...

As the flood-swollen Elbe river continued to rise dramatically and wrecked havoc along its northward surge, several thousand more residents have been evacuated in Germany from areas facing the ...

The 18th- and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley extends some 18 km along the river from Übigau Palace and Ostragehege fields in the north-west to the Pillnitz Palace and the Elbe ...

As the surge from the Elbe pushed into rural eastern Germany, there was some relief further upstream as the river slipped back from record levels in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt state.

Photo of the mouth of the river Saale into the Elbe. The study analyzed data from the four largest rivers in northern Germany - the Elbe, Weser, Aller and Ems - were analyzed over ten years.