Floodwaters in an inundated city on Australia’s north-eastern coast held steady below their predicted peak today as exhausted residents were warned they would face a long wait before the mud-soaked landscape dries out.

A flooded Australian coastal city braced itself for water levels to peak today as authorities held an emergency meeting to draw up recovery plans for the 200,000 people hit by the deluge.

Residents of an Australian coastal city were evacuated today as surging floodwaters edged closer to their community, with one official describing the devastation as reaching “biblical proportions”.

Police fear they have found the remains of an 11-year-old girl snatched by a crocodile in an Australian swamp.

A crocodile seen in an Australian swamp seconds before an 11-year-old girl disappeared is suspected of attacking and killing her, police said today.

A tropical cyclone packing winds of up to 137 mph lashed Australia’s remote north-eastern coast today, a month after another storm left thousands in the region homeless.

Residents in remote north-eastern Australia are braced for the onslaught of a tropical cyclone today, bearing winds of up to 137mph, a month after another storm left thousands in the region homeless.

Two Germans and a French tourist were killed when their minibus collided with a four-wheel-drive vehicle in north-eastern Australia, police said today.

Police and park officials today hunted for a man who went missing after a crocodile grabbed him by the arm, upturned his canoe and dragged him underwater in north-eastern Australia.

A 24-year-old British tourist was fighting for her life in an Australian hospital today after falling from a 65ft rainforest viewing platform.

TOUGH new laws targeting alcoholism among Aborigines in north-eastern Australia took effect yesterday.

The Crocodile Hunter became the hunted today when Steve Irwin, the Australian TV wildlife host went into hiding after sparking a frenzy by hand-feeding a crocodile while holding his month-old son.