Helicopters airlift 60 stranded tourists following Grand Canyon flash flood
Mon Aug 31 4:59 am
An urgent search is under way for dozens of missing tourists after a flash flood ripped through the Grand Canyon.
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Race to rescue 900 trapped workers as floodwaters recede in Nepal
Mon Aug 31 4:47 am
Communities across flood-ravaged Nepal have suffered immense devastation, while crews work to find 900 workers still missing.
Fire has gutted a popular Bali restaurant
Mon Aug 31 4:44 am
Fire has torn through a Bali restaurant popular with Australian tourists.
Five Australians were having breakfast at a Nepalese hotel. Then came a wall of water
Mon Aug 31 4:04 am
Footage of the township hours after the flash flooding shows brown sludge blanketing the riverbank where several buildings once stood.
Maduro flashes peace sign in prison picture
Mon Aug 31 2:54 am
The ousted Venezuelan president, 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been detained in the US for seven months after US forces captured them in a raid in Caracas in January.
‘Survived by just 10 seconds’: How teacher’s quick decision saved 900 children
Mon Aug 31 2:33 am
As they evacuated to higher ground, Rajendra Dawadi said he saw a building about 100 metres from the river being engulfed.
Prince Harry gave security committee only a fortnight’s warning over return home
Mon Aug 31 1:49 am
When the Sussexes landed at Birmingham Airport last week, they were met by private security rather than a visible publicly funded police convoy.
Can great music survive in the age of tech? Ireland has the answer
Mon Aug 31 1:44 am
While the digital age has presented plenty of challenges to live music, in Dublin’s downtown pubs it is helping keep traditions alive.
We saw the floods in Nepal. But will we ever know what happened in Tibet?
Mon Aug 31 1:30 am
We cannot properly understand the climate crisis in Asia when an important part of it remains behind a mountain of political censorship and control.
‘I saw many dead bodies’: The harrowing escape from a flooded Nepal tunnel
Sun Aug 30 11:16 pm
After the inland tsunami hit, worker Dhan Bahadur Tamang was swept as far as four kilometres through a tunnel until he was spat out into a newly formed body of water that swirled with debris and equipment.
Helicopter footage captures scale of destruction in Nepali town
Sun Aug 30 11:05 pm
At least five Australians were staying in a Nepali hotel near the Tibetan border when it was flattened by catastrophic floods.
The 43 Australians missing in the Nepal-Tibet floods, and what we know about them
Sun Aug 30 11:02 pm
Families across the country are reeling in the aftermath of the devastating flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet, as loved ones at home hold out hope for any good news.