Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of busy Brisbane city on Thursday afternoon, but government forecasts warned its slow and "erratic" crawl towards the mainland was growing ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 250 kilometers (155 miles) east of the city of Brisbane on Thursday afternoon, but government forecasts warned that its slow and "erratic" crawl toward the mainland was ...

An "erratic" tropical cyclone lingered off Australia's eastern coast on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons.

Sixteen people died in Mozambique and one in Madagascar after Cyclone Jude pivoted through the region last week, according to ...

Cyclone Alfred has been downgraded to a category ... More than 1,000 schools in southeast Queensland and 250 in northern New South Wales were closed on Thursday, while public transport in Brisbane ...

After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred weakened into a tropical depression before making landfall ...

A total of 272,757 customers are without electricity in districts of Nampula province, in northern Mozambique, due to the bad ...

The proposal follows the Insurance Council of Australia’s (ICA) call for a $30 billion government-funded Flood Defence Fund.

Governments are rushing to reopen schools and public transport, despite continued flooding in many areas, road closures, fallen live power lines and damaged homes.

Norco chief executive Michael Hampson estimated ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred had cost the farmer-owned dairy ... beef cattle ...

Although the wind and rain have since eased in Queensland and New South Wales, large areas remain without power ...