Among the damage inflicted by Storm Sabine (or Ciara) across Europe last week was €675 million covered by insurers in Germany, the financial firms' federation said Tuesday.
Floods that devastated parts of Germany in June could be the costliest natural disaster ever to hit the country, a top insurer said on Tuesday. The company is calling for an end to building in flood-prone areas.
The man who named the weekend's deadly Atlantic storm "Xynthia" after winning a competition said on Monday he was sorry the name would now always be linked to death and destruction.
