A section of the Burnett River bank has collapsed due to overnight heavy rain, washing away part of a marine store in Bundaberg in southern state of Queensland, local media reported on Tuesday.
Thursday marked a bloody day for Pakistan as four blasts rocked the country, leaving at least 116 people killed and 235 others injured.
The death toll from a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday rose to eight as more bodies were retrieved from the debris, local authorities said.
Zhang Xiaoming, the new director of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong spoke with the local media for the first time on Wed, saying that his office would fulfill its given responsibilities and never "rule Hong Kong".
Fearing that the five accused in the horrifying rape case in the Indian capital last month could be lynched by angry crowds, a local court ordered camera proceeding of the hearings on Monday rather than in person at the demand of police.
Chong Sarika, a small town in Lopburi province, some 150 kilometers north of this capital city, comes alive as the golden hue of sunflowers that are in bloom covers the entire town.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is calling for more market reforms to tackle China's economic challenges.