17th January - Today's News: NSW River Flows for First Time in 5 Years

BOM says more rain on way for Sydney as country creek flows for first time in five years but in neighbouring Victoria, an emergency warning issued as Mount Buffalo fire flares up, threatening Alpine communities

Cyclone Tino to make landfall on Fiji's Vanua Levu by midnight

Down in Devon, a passenger hurt when wave smashes Great Western Railway train windows near Dawlish (where the line runs right along the seafront)

Smog in southern Europe sparks car bans and street protests

Taal volcano's inner lake all but gone in eruption

And is there a shortage of tinfoil hats in Russia?  Apparently, it's not global warming, it's not climate change, instead an imaginary U.S. ‘climate weapon’ caused Russia’s warm winter, lawmaker says