March 9 - Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state were without power on Sunday after ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings.

Six defence forces personnel are seriously injured among 13 taken to hospital when their trucks rolled over in a deployment ...

The Queensland government will make a call later on Sunday about which schools will reopen for the start of the week, as ex-cyclone Albert continues to batter the state’s south-east.

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