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Parts of Australia's east coast have been hit with heavy rain, forcing evacuations, power cuts and school closures - but it also brought one piece of very good news.

Eight flood evacuation orders were issued for towns, including Narrabeen Lagoon, Moorebank, Chipping Norton and Milperra, and a number of flood warnings were also issued.

The New South

All changed, changed utterly. The words of the poet WB Yeats in the wake of Ireland's uprising against British rule in 1916.

They could equally apply to the general election that has just taken place, producing something of a political revolution.

For generations, Ireland has been a two-party state - governed by either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael - but

A gunman who ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours has been arrested.

The man, who has not been named, was captured after he walked into a police station and started shooting shortly before 8am on Sunday.

He wounded one officer and narrowly missed a number of others before he ran out of bullets, lay down and gave up his gun.

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