Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of a Second World War hospital ship sunk by the Japanese in 1943 with 268 people killed.

The amount of oil that leaked from a ship and blackened miles of sand along Australia’s north-east coast is ten times higher than originally estimated, according to a government official.

Massive floods in northern Australia washed a crocodile into the road, where it got run over by a passing truck.

Emergency crews rushed to clean up an oil spill off Australia’s east coast today, following a collision between a ship and a tugboat.