“It took me a long time to breathe,” Laurie Lilliott said of the moment she found her home destroyed in Dekle Beach, Florida.

Helene hit Florida packing sustained winds of around 209 kph, the National Hurricane Center said, making it a powerful Category 4 storm.

Hurricane Helene roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm in a sparsely populated region of Florida, peeling the siding from buildings, trapping residents in rising floodwaters and knocking out power to millions of customers. At least five people were reported dead.

Hurricane Helene weakened to a Tropical Storm over Georgia with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) early Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Helene became a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday night and has made landfall in Florida, with residents warned not to travel

Hurricane Helene has hit land in Florida, bringing with it winds of up to 140mph and leaving three dead and two million without power.

Reports that it was a tornado that wreaked havoc in Christian Valley, an area southeast of Kelowna, are in doubt.

An American YouTuber who has bee documenting his journey across has given his thoughts on Manchester, claiming that there are two things about the city that blew him away

An American YouTuber has been documenting his first trip to Manchester, where he has been exploring some of the city's most famous sights and trying out some British classics

A bus carrying a number of Irish holidaymakers has crashed in the south of France, near the border with Spain, leaving more than a dozen people injured with what are understood to be minor injuries.

Colosseum Shaworma & Kebab in Erdington requested Birmingham City Council come and visit but they had overlooked a massive problem