12th August - Today's News: World's Saddest Snowman Spotted in Canberra

Here, the weather should be interesting over the next couple of days with some very heavy rain in some areas; over 100mm possible in a situation not entirely dissimilar to July 2007. The big difference is that this time it comes on the back of a very dry period (here, at least) so the same level of riverine flooding is not expected, though flash flooding remains a risk, and some parts of southern England have seen much more rain this summer than Worcestershire. Obviously not everywhere will see such high totals, but there's a flood warning as 'month's rain to fall in two days'

Dozens missing after landslide in Shaanxi, China

Video footage from last week as Typhoon Soudelor whips up enough power to lift a plane off the tarmac in Taiwan

Millions are gallons of waste turn Colorado river yellow

A new map reveals that almost half of all Americans are at risk from tremors

And are we all aliens? Support grows for the panspermia theory that claims life on Earth may have arrived here from outer space