Reid, Campbell and Fadden were the ACT suburbs hardest hit by wild weather this summer, when over a third of all ACT home insurance claims were caused by severe weather, new claims data released by NRMA Insurance today reveals.
Mozambique and Malawi are counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which has killed more than 100 people, injured scores and left a trail of destruction as it ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend.
The New Zealand government expects Cyclone Gabrielle to come with a bill of more than $10 billion ($A9.1 billion), rivalling the costs of the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes.
A national state of emergency has been declared in New Zealand after widespread damage from Cyclone Gabrielle, the country's worst storm in generations.
Overwhelmed rescuers are struggling to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose past 4400, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts.
Chile's government has extended an emergency order to another region, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control wildfires that have claimed at least 23 lives so far.
New Zealand's deadly flood crisis continues after heavy rainfall hit the country's north island, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads.
The Italian resort island of Ischia has a long history of natural disasters, but experts say this weekend's landslide that has killed eight people and left five missing was exacerbated by a combination of climate change and often-illegal excessive development.
Typhoon Nanmadol has brought ferocious winds and record rainfall to western Japan as one of the biggest storms to hit the country in years killed at least two people, disrupted transport and forced manufacturers to suspend operations.
Rescuers in Nepal are battling against torrential rains to pull out bodies from the wreckage of homes buried by a landslide that caused 22 deaths and injured 10 people.
A powerful typhoon approaching southern Japan is pounding the region with strong winds and heavy rain, causing blackouts, and the evacuation of thousands of people.
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping people on a mountain.
Authorities in Bangladesh have intensified efforts to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country.
