The Australian city of Brisbane has woken to widespread flooding, although the peak level is a metre lower than feared, officials say. The Brisbane River peaked at 4.46m (14.6ft) just before 0530 ...

Aerial images from across south ... Here's a bird's-eye view of the places most heavily hit — both before and after the flood event that authorities have labelled a "rain bomb".

Similar flooding ... the view. The floodwaters have risen drastically since NASA's Aqua satellite captured these photographs. with thousands fleeing Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane.

say two years after the flood, the worst-affected flooded markets had clearly seen a much larger decline in values than what Brisbane did overall," he said. Photo shows Aerial view of homes ...

Queensland's current Premier Anna Bligh says the flood surge coming to Brisbane on Wednesday and Thursday may well be similar. A very slow moving monsoonal trough producing heavy rain had drifted ...

The flooding, caused by heavy rain, has been particularly severe in Burketown, a small community in the north of the state about 1,300 miles northwest of the state capital Brisbane. Aerial images ...

In 2011, rain had stopped days before the Brisbane river peaked and authorities had warned for several days of flooding downstream. On Monday morning, the river peaked at 3.85m, but remained below ...

Bundaberg, a coastal town about 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Brisbane ... to escape major flooding after waters peaked at a lower level than forecast. An aerial photo taken above ...

The Brisbane River flood of 1974 inundates Festival Hall and Albert Street On the last weekend of January in 1974, as Australians marked their national day, an already abnormally wet summer saw ...