Land-locked Canberra is the nerve centre of the world’s largest search and rescue region – 53 million square kms (one tenth of the Earth’s surface) - and local response officers have just...
Crews have worked through a second night searching for victims of a hotel explosion that killed at least 27 people in Cuba's capital and left more than a dozen missing amid the rubble.
A green turtle found tangled in fishing line, with "deep, nasty" cuts to its flippers and a hook lodged in its neck has been rescued by NSW's Taronga Wildlife Hospital.
A NSW police officer who rescued two boys from a flood-affected river will be recommended for a bravery award while wet weather continues to batter much of the state.
