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The plane, with several passengers, had been circling in the air for hours to burn fuel.

The "adventurous pup" had slid about five to eight metres below ground, rescuers said.

The huge storms left buildings crumpled, cars flipped over and thousands of people without power.

Two mates are tonight thankful they're alive after making an incredible dash from danger by jumping out of the way of a truck driving straight towards them. 

Five military horses bolted during routine exercises near King Charles III's main residence, injuring at least four people and colliding with vehicles.

A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out "HELP" using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach.

Schools have been closed amid plunging air quality in the Central American nation.

She was freed by firefighters after a 30-minute ordeal before being treated in hospital.

The mammoth job is expected to last all week, following the death of six workers in the dramatic accident.

A man has died after falling at a waterfall in Far North Queensland.

Divers reported visibility beneath the Patapsco River is less than a metre as a huge recovery operation continues.

The deadly wall of snow collapsed on an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, below the famed Matterhorn peak.

Sparks could be seen flying from beneath the plane's fuselage as it landed on the runway without its landing gear deployed.

Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa.

When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its catastrophic collapse, that day led to a shocking brush with death.

Clearing the channel will allow the search for the missing victims to continue and reopen a port critical to the local and national economies.

While human-made climate change has spurred more erratic weather globally, there is something else parching southern Africa this year.

"The whole bridge just fell down," a frantic officer said. "Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed."

Footage shows how the giant container lost power just seconds before the collapse of the structure.

The ship was completely overturned by the time rescuers arrived at the scene

"When she heard the roof crack she rolled over off the couch and sort of shielded my son under her chest."

Arriving on the scene, officers were confronted with a woman "stabbing her mother" with officers left with "no choice" but to shoot her.

A man has been charged after a woman's body was discovered inside a car in northern New South Wales.

When Ricky Hampson Jr's nephew heard about his death, the young boy asked his mum: "If I go to hospital, will they save me?"

A hiker has died after slipping trying to retrieve a tripod that had fallen by a waterfall in a national park south-west of the Gold Coast.

A fire burning for a week in Victoria's west remains out of control despite light rain and cooler conditions.

A rescue helicopter has been sent to a remote area of Queensland after a person became trapped in grain under a grain silo.

An out-of-control bushfire west of Ballarat will is likely to be burning when Victoria is hit by a combination of wind and heat not seen in years.

Fleeing residents were forced onto balconies before being lifted away by fire crews.

Families of the victims are pleading for the central government to step up rescue efforts.

A car and truck collided at the bottom of Bulli Pass, Thirroul, at 1.50pm today, police have confirmed. 

One of the cars is believed to have ignited in the building.

Passengers saw and smelled smoke in the cabin and coming from the cockpit, and were left frustrated by handling of the incident on the ground.

Fire and Rescue crews tangled with an "unusual" hazardous materials situation on the weekend.

Thousands of homes have been burnt down and hundreds of people remain missing in central Chile.

Authorities are now urging residents to evacuate as a wall of flames moves quickly towards more homes.

'Behind every drowning is a family and it is extremely tragic.'

Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm has said he is 'numb' following the deadly crash.

Six people were forced out of their house when the living room floor in their home in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood collapsed, authorities said.

The chartered flight had been en route to a Rio Tinto mine when it went down.

Tremors were felt as far away as the neighbouring countries Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

The day after the deadliest US wildfire in a century destroyed a seaside community on Maui, the barrage of 911 calls didn't stop.

It came after young woman, believed to have been on her honeymoon, died in Sydney.

More than 200 firefighters have been battling to contain three large bushfires in parts of Gingin, Bindoon and Chittering, about an hour from Perth.

Residents have undergone respiratory checks after the eruption in West Sumatra.

It took more than two hours to find the woman inside a burning home after she called for help. By then, she was dead.

Several passengers have been captured by the terror group in Somalia.

Police experts are today investigating how the suspicious blaze started.

The extended grounding of some Boeing 737 Max jetliners is adding to pressure on Boeing and the subcontractor that made the fuselage and installed a panel that blew out leaving a gaping hole in an Alaska Airlines plane last week.

Slovenia's rescuers on Monday successfully extracted five people who had been trapped in a cave for more than two days because of high water levels.