The NSW flood crisis is escalating, with 57,000 people ordered to evacuate and more rain forecast as the drenching shifts towards the Mid-North Coast.
Maureen Dettre
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will tour flood-affected communities in NSW alongside Premier Dominic Perrottet.
Andrew Brown
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit flood-affected areas of NSW on Wednesday after defending his trip overseas to repair Australia’s relationship with France and to support war-torn Ukraine.
Kimberley Caines
Unions have called on the NSW and federal governments to offer more support for Norco's ice-cream factory workers, whose jobs are only guaranteed to mid-July.
Stephanie Gardiner
Major flooding continues in western Sydney's Hawkesbury-Nepean, with thousands of residents across dozens of suburbs told to evacuate.
Jack Gramenz
The prime minister will visit flood-affected Greater Sydney just days after returning to Australia from Europe as the government considers more help for NSW.
Staff Writers
Driving rain around Sydney is continuing to cause problems, forcing the evacuation of thousands more people in flood-hit communities as rivers continue to rise.
Farid Farid and Maureen Dettre
Scientists say two big drivers of Australia's climate could coincide later this year and pose fresh threats to communities that have had repeated floods.
Tracey Ferrier
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has flattened a village in southern Iran, killing at least five people and injuring nearly 50.
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of flooded campgrounds and dangerous driving conditions on the first weekend of school holidays in NSW.
Phoebe Loomes
The unprecedented floods that swept through southeast Queensland and northern NSW earlier this year caused $4.8 billion in insured damages.
Tremors continue to be felt in a remote area of Afghanistan where a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck last week.
Mohammad Yunus Yawar
Thousands of people affected by the deadly earthquake in Afghanistan are at risk of disease and need clean water and food, a health ministry official says.
Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Sayed Hassib
An Afghan health ministry official says an aftershock in the country's east has left at least five people dead.
India has sent a support team and Taiwan has pledged $US1m in aid towards Afghanistan's recovery from a powerful earthquake that killed 1000 people.
Taliban officials say rescue operations have finished and no one is trapped under rubble after an earthquake killed at least 1000 people in Afghanistan.
Deployed to assist in a Queensland flood that destroyed more than 3000 homes and killed 23 people, a Bunbury Platoon Sergeant has shared his experience in the face of disaster.Â
Kasper Johansen
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake that jolted eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 1000 people and injured more than 1500, reducing homes to rubble.
Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Jibran Ahmad
Millions of people are struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of Bangladesh.
Ruma Paul and Zarir Hussain
Around 1000 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that has rocked Afghanistan.
Millions of people have been stranded with little food and drinking water by flooding in parts of Bangladesh and northeast India.
Australians are more concerned about the severity and frequency of disasters, and a majority want greater investment in disaster mitigation, the NRMA says.
Robyn Wuth
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken buildings in Taiwan's capital and could be felt across the island, authorities say.
More than nine million people have been marooned by record flooding in India and Bangladesh as authorities scramble to get aid in.
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