In Australia, at least 10 people have died and 78 people remain missing after unprecedented flash floods tore through southern Queensland. The dead include a four-year-old boy who drowned after falling out of a rescue boat.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard: “The nation does need to brace itself for the fact that the death toll, as a result of yesterday’s flash flooding and walls of water, is likely to rise.”

The floods are now threatening Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city.