People in Melbourne are being warned this morning of the risk of aftershocks after the city was struck by its strongest earthquake in 120 years overnight.
At least nine people have been killed by heavy flooding and mudslides in the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna, and as many as 20,000 residents are being forced to evacuate.
A tropical cyclone is strengthening in the Bay of Bengal and is on course to hit western Myanmar and Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, the world's largest refugee camp.
New Zealand's North Island has been rocked by a number of strong consecutive earthquakes this morning, just hours after 7.2 magnitude quake shook the same region yesterday.
The category 5 storm delivered the strongest wind gusts ever recorded in Australia and a hefty damage bill in its wake but there could be more yet to come as threat remains.
A seaside boom town in New Zealand known as a haven for retirees, holidaymakers and day trippers would be a "death trap" in the event of a tsunami, residents say.
Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists says.
The earthquake with about 6.8 magnitude, as reported by the US Geological Survey, killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and brought down homes and buildings in vastly different communities, from coastal areas to the highlands.
A 17-year-old was dubbed the "miracle girl" when she was pulled alive from the rubble 248 hours after a fatal earthquake that ripped through southern Turkey.
Though many parts of the quake's epicentre are virtually unrecognisable now, here are some before and after photos which illustrate the extent of the destruction.
For thousands of years, myths and legends have swirled around these large destructives waves. Now one expert has flagged how long Australia would have if the "worst case scenario" happened.
Rescue workers were searching for two missing people after an avalanche swept across ski trails in western Austria on Sunday, the dpa news agency reported.
Tropical cyclones have killed hundreds of Australians and caused billions of dollars in damage – and we've been warned they're only going to get worse.
Rescuers searched for bodies and survivors on Tuesday in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in an earthquake that killed at least 252 people on Indonesia's main island of Java and injured hundreds more, overwhelming hospitals.
Early-learning educators in the Northern Rivers are reporting children between three and five communicating the February and March flooding with one another through art, craft and play.