Reading Time: 3 minutesMore than 500 people are now known to have died in floods in south-eastern Brazil, the countrys worst natural disaster for several decades.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPope Benedict XVI has formally approved a miracle attributed to his late predecessor, paving the way to John Paul IIs beatification on 1...
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople in Brisbane have begun to clean up swathes of sludge and debris as floodwaters begin to recede from Australias third largest city.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver 2.5 thousand foreigners immigrated into Moldova last year - up 25.9% against 2009, the National Migration Bureau reported.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople placed small red hearts on the names of victims inscribed on a memorial
Reading Time: 2 minutesTowns and villages have been cut off across the state of Rio de Janeiro
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA tanker carrying 2,400 tonnes of sulphuric acid has sunk on the Rhine river in Germany and police say two crew members...
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome Brisbane residents have taken to the flooded streets in canoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy late January in 1974, almost every river in Queensland was in flood.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA boat swept down the swollen Brisbane river sinks after hitting a bridge