March 9 - Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state were without power on Sunday after ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings.

More bad weather is set to be unleashed by ex-tropical cyclone Alfred as forecasters expect up to 700mm of rain and ...

The Queensland government will make a call later on Sunday about which schools will reopen for the start of the week, as ex-cyclone Albert continues to batter the state’s south-east.