catastrophe

The crisis in Japan is growing daily as the country struggles to get its nuclear problems under control. This makes it even more difficult to estimate the full effect of the crisis on the world economy. We look at media views on what some of those effects might be.

The media’s attention this week is focused not only on Haiti’s disastrous earthquake, which has flattened Port-au-Prince and killed tens of thousands of people, but also on what needs to be done when the rescue work is over.

Bushfire is Australia's homegrown equivalent of war. It is essential that we learn the lessons of every fire, writes The Australian.