Mount Sinabung in Indonesia's North Sumatra province has erupted, sending ash about 3500 metres above the volcano's summit.
Staff Writers
One person has died and about 15 people are missing after a major flash flood at the Grand Canyon
JAMIE STENGLE and FELICIA FONSECA
ASIC found cash settlements in almost two-thirds of reviewed claims, with one offer raised only after a builder revealed its quote was 40 per cent below cost
Ryan Johnson
Emergency workers in Nepal are racing to reach more than 900 workers trapped in hydropower project tunnels choked with mud and rock debris in the Himalayas.
Gopal Sharma and Saurabh Sharma and Sahana Bajracharya
RECAP: Cara Severino has described her feeling of relief after being located in flood-ravaged Nepal as families cling to hope for 42 Australians still missing in the emergency.
Chloe Maher
Authorities are warning of rising river levels as rescue efforts continue for those hit by a flood in a Himalayan border region that killed at least 750 people.
VICTORIA MILKO and NIRANJAN SHRESTHA
The families of Australians missing after devastating flooding in Nepal are being realistic but still hope for news of their loved-ones.
Catherine Bouris and Allanah Sciberras
The death toll from a flash flood in the border region between Nepal and China has risen to 626, with almost 3000 people still missing.
Climate change may have led to deadly flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border, as experts stress the importance of cross-border collaboration.
Eleanor Wilson
Rising temperatures and melting glaciers likely played a role in the catastrophic flash flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border, scientists say.
Australia's Nepalese community is in mourning for the hundreds killed and many more missing in catastrophic floods along its border with Tibet.
Nick Wilson
An overflowing barrier lake has briefly halted Nepal and China's rescue efforts, as the death toll from a catastrophic flood crosses 500 people.
Gopal Sharma, Sahana Bajracharya, Saurabh Sharma and Liz Lee
A Himalayan region is in ruins after an avalanche of glacial ice and rock swept down into a river, sending catastrophic floods through towns and valleys.
Thousands of people on Indonesia's Flores island are still waiting for aid after a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed at least 54 people.
FIRDIA LISNAWATI
Firefighters in Belgium and Greece are battling major blazes, with a massive wildfire scorching a nature reserve and hundreds of people evacuated.
Sylvie Corbet and Ahmad Seir Nassiri
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea's north coast.
Hopes of finding survivors of the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia five days ago are dwindling.
Luis Jaime Acosta
Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia have recovered six more bodies following a magnitude-7.7 earthquake, bringing the death toll to 53.
Arnold Welianto and Stanley Widianto
Footage has emerged of buildings collapsing as the quake and aftershocks rocked the region.
Freddy Pawle
At least 38 people are dead after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, and rescue teams are yet to reach the region closest to the epicentre.
Dewi Kurniawati and Ananda Teresia
Emergency workers are attempting to rescue four people in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Colombia after an earthquake.
Rescuers in Colombia are racing against time to find survivors after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit the country.
Authorities in Colombia say there is less than a day left of a 72-hour window during which there are far greater chances of finding earthquake survivors.
Julia Symmes Cobb, Santiago Limachi, Luis Jaime Acosta and Nelson Bocanegra
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit western Colombia has risen to at least 250.
Nelson Bocanegra, Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb
