Residents of Australia's cyclone-battered tropical north east have emerged from their homes to find roofs lying in their yards, boats flung on to rocks and roads blocked by tangles of fallen trees and power lines.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs is advising Irish citizens flying into Queensland to keep informed of regional weather forecasts and avoid disaster areas.

TRY as he might, Gerard O’Kane couldn’t kick the habit.

Six people were killed today when their light plane crashed and burst into flames soon after it took off from a luxury Australian holiday isle.

Australian police may have made a breakthrough in the hunt for the man who abducted, and probably killed, a British tourist.