Commercial flights out of Vanuatu have resumed after the quake as the RAAF completed it last two evacuation operations bringing Australians home for Christmas.
Holly Hales
‘It still brings me to tears,’ he says. ‘And I don’t think that will ever stop.’
Nick McCallum
Nigerian police say the death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity food distribution events has increased from 13 to 32.
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Vanuatu has been hit by another earthquake as Canberra announced more financial assistance and hundreds of Aussies returned home.
French President Emmanuel Macron swore during a heated exchange with angry residents in cyclone-hit Mayotte.
Defence flights have brought home more than 400 Australians but one man still stranded in Vanuatu says the government's response is "slow and inadequate".
Emily Verdouw and Samantha Lock
Two people have been rescued after their car was trapped in floodwaters as a tropical low moves across northern Australia, triggering warnings.
Laine Clark and Samantha Lock
Roads have been closed and rivers are rising in north Queensland, with severe storms prompting warnings for holiday travellers to reconsider festive driving.
Savannah Meacham and Laine Clark
Two more defence flights will bring stranded Australians home from quake-hit Vanuatu as rescue efforts continue amid severe damage and looming cyclone threats.
Emily Verdouw
An estimated 23,000 vulnerable people including those with a disability and children are in urgent need of help after a deadly earthquake rocked Vanuatu.
Dominic Giannini and Jacob Shteyman
Vanuatu has been hit by a second earthquake, measuring 6.1 in magnitude, with the death toll now rising to 14.
Max Corstorphan
More than a dozen people are dead after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck in Vanuatu but little is known about the extent of the damage further afield.
Ben McKay
A Queensland business owner has given dozens of stranded Vanuatu workers a place to stay as they wait for a chance to return to their earthquake-hit home.
A response effort is underway in Port Vila after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
An active volcano in the Philippines has erupted again, sending an ash cloud up to 4000 metres into the sky and prompting evacuations.
Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores
A road worker has been seriously injured after he was hit by a truck in Wattle Grove.
Shannon Hampton
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 10 people swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks on Indonesia's main island of Java.
Niniek Karmini and Rangga Firmansyah
Jesse Langford, who lost his mother, father and sister in the 2019 White Island eruption, is reportedly returning to New Zealand for the five-year anniversary.
A tsunami warning update has been issued after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake has hit the US West Coast that sparked an urgent warning from officials who told locals ‘you are in danger’.
The US national tsunami warning centre has called off a tsunami alert after a magnitude 7 earthquake hit off the northern California coast.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a tsunami update after an earthquake was felt in Western Australia, just hours after quakes hit Indonesia and the Philippines.
There are no immediate reports of damage after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the northern Philippines.
Rescue workers are navigating treacherous conditions to clear access routes and search for missing persons in Indonesia's North Sumatra.
