Floods in India's southern state of Kerala have claimed 39 lives and caused a loss of 1.1 billion dollars, officials said.

Rescue workers found chaos and destruction across the Indonesian resort island of Lombok after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 91 people.

A massive wildfire in Northern California has torched more than 1 000 homes in and around the city of Redding, authorities said.

At least 543 hikers were rescued from a volcano on the resort island of Lombok after being stranded by landslides triggered by a deadly earthquake.

A shallow, magnitude 6.4 earthquake killed at least 10 people and injured 40 on Indonesia's Lombok Island, a popular tourist destination next to Bali

Joint patrols of the Fire Service, army personnel, and volunteer rescuers discovered more bodies in gutted homes east of Athens, raising the death toll to 81.

A wildfire killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 as it swept through a small resort town near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled.

Rescuers in western Japan dug through mud and rubble, racing to find survivors of floods and landslides that killed more than 100 people.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Japan's second-biggest metropolis, killing three people, halting factory lines and bursting water mains.

The body of a man swept away by flash floods in Maryland was recovered a day after two journalists were killed in North Carolina when a tree fell on their car.

Authorities have warned people to avoid white plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass caused by lava from the Kilauea volcano.

High-speed winds, rain and lightning left a trail of destruction, bringing down homes and claiming more than 71 lives in four Indian states.

Geologists have warned that Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could erupt explosively and send boulders, rocks and ash into the air around its summit.

The number of homes destroyed by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano jumped to 26 as scientists reported lava spewing more than 61 metres into the air.

Thousands have evacuated Hawaii after lava eruptions destroyed five houses and gas threatened to anyone who stayed in their homes, officials said.

Thirteen mineworkers were last night still trapped about 3km underground following a seismic event at Sibanye Stillwater's Masakhane mine, Driefontein operation on the West Rand.