A Spanish visitor using the toilets at a fast-food outlet in Cork City had the cubicle door kicked in; A 15-year-old Killarney student has no place to live and yesterday went in to her Junior Cert geography exam knowing her family had no money for food; Nineteen people injured as a pick-up truck smashed into a cafe in Australia. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Two powerful cyclones have hit northern Australia, knocking out power to thousands, tearing roofs off houses and prompting coastal residents to flee their homes.

MAGIC MOMENT: Portishead performing ‘Wandering Star’ beneath a clear night sky at Electric Picnic.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of eight children in an Australian home.

Flights have resumed to and from Australia’s northernmost city of Darwin after they were suspended for more than a day due to clouds of ash from an Indonesian volcano.

Huge ash clouds caused by an Indonesian volcano have forced airlines to cancel flights to and from Darwin in northern Australia.

Australian police searching for a stolen 200,000 Australian dollar (€131,000) rare pink diamond have X-rayed a British tourist suspected to have swallowed it.

A crocodile is suspected to have taken a 12-year-old boy after attacking his friend as they swam in a water hole in Australia.

An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years, with scientists calling the area a “lost world”.

A French fisherman has survived an attack by a crocodile off the coast of northern Australia.

Hopes were fading for a nine-year-old boy taken by a 13ft crocodile in northern Australia, which police said was being fed by the local community.

Police are searching for a nine-year-old boy who was snatched by a crocodile as he was swimming in the mouth of a river in northern Australia.

CLIMATE change is set to cause more extreme weather, including more frequent heatwaves and stronger storms, an international science panel has warned.

President Barack Obama insisted today that the United States does not fear China, even as he announced a new security agreement with Australia which is widely seen as a response to China’s growing aggressiveness.

US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard have announced a new agreement to expand the American military presence in Australia, outlining plans for up to 250 personnel by the middle of 2012.

CLIMATE change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia’s Queensland state, scientists said yesterday, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl has survived an encounter with a crocodile in northern Australia.

A five-year-old girl has survived an encounter with a crocodile in northern Australia just as a coroner began an inquest into a crocodile attack that killed an 11-year-old girl last year.

A MAN dived face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in waters off north-east Australia and medics flew him to a hospital intensive care unit to treat the potentially fatal sting, officials said.

Indigenous people from around the world are gathering this week for a conference on climate change – a subject they claim affects them disproportionately even though they share relatively little responsibility for it.

PARK rangers in northern Australia have been ordered to kill any large crocodile they find after a 20-year-old man disappeared yesterday while swimming in a crocodile-infested river.

Park rangers in northern Australia have been ordered to kill any large crocodile they find after a 20-year-old man disappeared today while swimming in a crocodile-infested river.

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 pilot guided a light plane and his five passengers to a safe landing in shallow waters in northern Australia today – and walked away with his baggage.

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

A MAN rescued his wife from the jaws of a crocodile in remote northern Australia by jumping on its back.

A man was bitten on the face by a crocodile when he accidentally collided with the reptile after diving through a wave at a surf beach in Australia, a newspaper reported today.

From rural Australia to Siberia to the south-western US state of Oklahoma, languages that embody the history and traditions of people are dying, US researchers said today.

The family of Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin asked for privacy today, on the first anniversary of the Australian TV presenter and environmentalist’s tragic death.

Police suspended their search today for the crew of a ghost-ship yacht found drifting off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, saying there was little chance of finding the three men alive.

Three men who disappeared from a “Mary Celeste” catamaran found drifting off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may have fallen overboard in rough seas nearly a week ago, police said today.

A massive air-sea search is under way today after a "Marie Celeste" catamaran was found drifting off Australia's Great Barrier Reef with engines and electronics running, food on the table - but no crew.

European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson criticised Australia today for taking the US side in stalled World Trade Organisation talks on global trade liberalisation.

Prime minister John Howard toured cyclone-shattered regions of northern Australia today and announced a multi-million dollar package of low-interest loans and tax-free grants to help farmers and small businesses begin rebuilding.

Police in northern Sydney enlisted the help of a zoo keeper to capture a crocodile today after locals reported seeing one of the reptiles in a suburban waterway.

INDONESIAN police scrutinised amateur video yesterday that showed a man apparently with a backpack entering a Bali restaurant seconds before one of three suicide blasts that killed as many as 22 people.

A 56-year-old man is believed to have been killed by a crocodile while diving off the northern Australian coast, police said today.

A post-mortem has confirmed that a British mine worker was killed in a crocodile attack on a remote island off the coast of northern 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 US Marine Corps fighter jet dropped a bomb and damaged a building in an accident at a remote military range in northern Australia, the government said today.

A MAN living in a remote town in northern Australia was gored to death by a wild buffalo before being burnt in a bushfire, police said.

LIKE bank holiday trippers, the first modern humans who migrated from Africa probably headed for the seaside, new research suggests.

Two teenage farm hands were convicted today of murdering two Thai-born prostitutes by throwing them bound and weighted into a crocodile-infested river in northern Australia.