In a legal first, an Italian judge has ordered six members of a charity rescue ship to stand trial on accusations of aiding illegal immigration.
Staff Writers
Police hold serious concerns for his welfare.
Jessica Evensen
More than 6000 insurance claims have been filed after deadly flooding made more than 1000 properties uninhabitable, but the recovery will take time.
Jack Gramenz
A 31-year-old rider was hit by a truck and killed in East Fremantle on Wednesday night, with his death leading to a dire milestone in WA’s road toll.
Dylan Caporn and Caleb Runciman
A man accused of killing an 80-year-old former pastor by setting a house on fire has faced court after his dramatic arrest on a train.
Jack Gramenz and Alex Mitchell
Ten days after Blatten was evacuated because geologists identified immediate risk of an avalanche, the Swiss village has been buried in rock and ice.
A man in his 30s has been rushed to hospital after a serious incident on Wednesday evening.
Artemisia Blythe
The pilot killed in a fatal light plane crash in the Mid West in March texted a maintenance worker 18 minutes into the flight, a preliminary report has revealed.
Josephine Hingst
Police have found 11 bodies in a boat beached on an island in the eastern Caribbean.
Intense flames and a roof collapse have forced firefighters to retreat during a battle to extinguish a blaze at a home where a man was later found dead.
An eight-year-old boy has died in a horrific accident after he fell from a ute, which then hit him, in Mt Helena bushland.
Caleb Runciman
Nearby homes have been damaged and plumes of black and grey smoke linger after a blast at a chemical plant that killed at least five people in eastern China.
Nicoco Chan, Go Nakamura and Xihao Jiang
A large explosion at a chemical plant in China has sent thick plumes of smoke into the sky, state media reports, without giving details on casualties.
WorkSafe is investigating after a prisoner suffered a serious hand injury while operating machinery.
Liverpool's friends and foes alike are showing support for the UK city after a man rammed a car into a crowd of fans celebrating their Premier League title.
Steve Douglas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pledging more funds for flood-affected communities, praising the "extraordinary resilience" shown by those on the front line.
Jack Gramenz, Farid Farid and Sebastian Tan
Communities have banded together following widespread flooding, helping clean up the mess, find supplies, and return a sense of normality after disaster.
Water police have issued a ‘life or death’ warning to unprepared boaties after rescuing four people from overturned vessels in the ocean last week.
It took 18 people several hours to retrieve the woman.
Claire Middleton
A team of WA State Emergency Service volunteers have travelled to New South Wales to help in the devastating flood crisis.
Authorities say one man has died and two were injured after an explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York
Emergency authorities put out a ‘pan-pan’ call for the boat just before 4.30pm.
Caitlin Vinci
Hundreds of goldminers are awaiting rescue in a South African mine near Johannesburg, hours after they became trapped when a mineshaft was damaged.
WA Police and St John WA rushed to the scene after reports of a collision between a car and a child on Friday.
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