Multiple people have been killed after a single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area at an airport in North Carolina, the US National Park Service says.

Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town in South Africa, police say.

Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful air strike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.

Tropical Depression Helene has brought life-threatening flooding to wide sections of the US Southeast, where at least 43 people have been killed by a storm that swamped neighbourhoods, triggered mudslides, threatened dams and left more than four million homes and businesses without power.

Wild winds and heavy rain have hit the NSW north coast, triggering severe weather and flood warnings.

The US Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges accusing three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and trying to disrupt the November 5 election.

Tropical Storm Helene has brought flooding to the Carolinas after causing widespread destruction as a major hurricane moving through Florida and Georgia, killing at least 33 people, swamping neighbourhoods and leaving more than 4 million homes and businesses without power.

The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday in an attack that shook the Lebanese capital and sent thick clouds of smoke over the city.

Qantas engineers plan to strike in Sydney, coinciding with the NSW school holidays and the lead-up to the NRL grand final, as they step up their fight for better pay.

A former nurse will spend at least three-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a student and patients under his care at two private hospitals.

Driving rain flooded roadways and closed airports in Florida as an intensifying Hurricane Helene marched toward the state’s panhandle region, bringing the threat of a potentially deadly storm surge to much of the coastline.