Police also keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam or CCTV footage.

China's capital recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days as remnants of Typhoon Doksuri deluged the region, turning streets into canals where emergency crews used rubber boats to rescue stranded residents.

The city recorded 744.8 millimetres of rain between Saturday and Wednesday morning, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau said on Wednesday.

Beijing and the surrounding province of Hebei were hit by severe flooding because of the record rainfall, with waters rising to dangerous levels.

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The rain destroyed roads and knocked out power and even pipes carrying drinking water.

It flooded rivers surrounding the capital, leaving cars waterlogged, while lifting others onto bridges meant for pedestrians.

The number of confirmed deaths from the torrential rains around Beijing rose to 21 on Wednesday after the body of a rescuer was recovered.

Wang Hong-chun, 41, was with other rescuers in a rubber boat when it flipped over in a rapidly flowing river. Four of her teammates survived.

At least 26 people remain missing from the rains.

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Among the hardest hit areas is Zhuozhou, a small city in Hebei province that borders Beijing's southwest.

On Tuesday night, police there issued a plea on social media for lights to assist with rescue work.

Rescue teams traversed the flooded city in rubber boats as they evacuated residents who were stuck in their homes without running water, gas or electricity since Tuesday afternoon.

"I didn't think it would be that severe, I thought it was just a little bit of water and that it would recede," said 54-year-old Wang Huiying.

She ended up spending the night on the third floor of her building as the water seeped into the first floor, which holds her steamed bread shop.

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All the machinery is now underwater.

It's unknown how many people are trapped in flood-stricken areas in the city and surrounding villages. Rescue teams from other provinces came to Zhuozhou to assist with evacuations.

"We have to grasp every second, every minute to save people," said Zhong Hongjun, the head of a rescue team from coastal Jiangsu province.

Zhong said he had been working since 2am. Wednesday when they arrived, and expects to work into the night.

They've rescued about 200 people so far.

"A lot of the people we saved are elderly and children," he said.

On Wednesday, waters in Gu'an county in Hebei, which borders Zhuozhou, reached as high as halfway up a pole where a surveillance camera was installed.

Gu'an county resident Liu Jiwen, 58, was evacuated from his village on Tuesday night.

"There's nothing we can do. It's natural disaster," he said.

Two other people were trying to pass through the flooded areas to rescue a relative trapped in a nearby village.

Nearly 850,000 people have been relocated, local authorities in Hebei province said.

The previous record for rainfall was in 1891, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau said Wednesday, when the city received 609 millimetres of rain.

The earliest precise measurements made by machines are from 1883.

Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, called the recent rainfall "extreme."

Last year's total rainfall in Beijing did not even top 500 millimetres.

Ma said there should be a review of how cities are planned because some places experience repeat flooding.

"We need to avoid building large-scale construction … in low-lying areas," Ma said.

The record rainfall from Doksuri, now downgraded to a tropical storm, may not be the last.

Typhoon Khanun, which lashed Japan on Wednesday, is expected to head toward China later this week.

The powerful storm, with surface winds of up to 180 km/h, may also hit Taiwan before it reaches China.

Thousands of people were evacuated to shelters in schools and other public buildings in suburban Beijing and in nearby cities.

The central government is disbursing more than $9.4 million for disaster relief in affected provinces.

The severity of the flooding took the Chinese capital by surprise.

Beijing usually has dry summers but had a stretch of record-breaking heat this year.

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The mobster approached his victim while wielding a knife.

The pedestrian died at the scene.

Human remains have been found in the search for a helicopter which crashed with four airmen aboard off the Queensland coast last week.

Australian Defence Force Chief of Joint Operations Lieutenant General Greg Bilton said the remains were found with the wreckage of the MRH-90 Taipan helicopter's cockpit, on the seabed, 40m deep.

"Yesterday afternoon, Wednesday the 2 August, HMO AES remotely operated an underwater vehicle which located a further debris field including parts of the cockpit of the helicopter," Bilton said.

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"Sadly I can confirm unidentified human remains have also been observed in this location by the remotely-operated underwater vehicle.

"Due to the nature of the debris field positive identified location of the remains is unlikely to occur until we recover more of the wreckage."

Australian Army Chief Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Corporal Alexander Naggs, and Warrant Officer Joseph Laycock were on board.

All four aviators are from the 6th aviation regiment based at the Holsworthy army barracks in Sydney.

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Divers have not yet found the black box flight recorder however which could provide answers to what happened.

There were no signs of anything wrong in communications with the aircraft, which crashed almost a week ago during the Talisman Sabre military exercises with the USA near the Whitsundays.

"It's a difficult task but we will do our absolute best to find it," Bilton said.

The operation is being impacted by bad weather and strong currents.

Bilton said he was "devastated" and said the tragedy is having a "significant impact" on colleagues.

The fleet of 23 MRH-90 Taipans helicopters were grounded after the crash for the second time.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the crash off the coast as a "stark reminder" that there are "no safe or easy days" for those who "serve in the country's name".

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Hundreds of Civil War era gold coins pulled from the ground of a US cornfield are worth a staggering $2 million, a formal valuation has found.

A Kentucky man found the buried treasure on his farm earlier this year when he pulled more than 700 gold – and a handful of silver coins – from the dry brown dirt.

The haul is now known as the "Great Kentucky Hoard" and have now been valued by the Numismatic Guaranty Company's (NGC) Certified Collectibles Group.

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Amongst the horde were 20 $10 Liberty coins, eight $20 Liberty coins – and the rarest – a staggering 18 1863-P $20 1-ounce gold Liberty coin.

Just one of these can go for six figures and the coins were sold on GovMint.

The man, whose identity has not been revealed, can be heard saying, "this is the most insane thing ever: Those are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins," in video shared exclusively with GovMint.

"Each of the coins that are part of the Great Kentucky Hoard are struck in 90 per cent gold at the Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans or Carson City Mints," a statement from GovMint said. 

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A swirling tornado has been captured over Iceland's newest volcano as lava and explosions ripple through the uninhabited valley where it formed.

Litli-Hrútur, or "Little Ram" formed on the Reykjanes Peninsula, in the country's southwest, July 10 after a fissure fractured the ground.

Loud explosions can now be heard ringing through the scarred landscape as volatile gases combust.

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"When lava flows over a vegetated area, methane gas can be produced when the vegetation does not burn completely," the Icelandic Met Office said on Facebook post.

"The gas then accumulates in gaps and cavities in the lava."

"When an ember or flame from the fire breaks into it, an explosion occurs."

Authorities urge adventure-seekers to exercise caution if they approach the eruption site.

Days after the eruption began toxic gases forced the closure of the nearby car park. 

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It comes after a rare tornado was captured near the volcano in a YouTube video posted on July 24.

David Smart, a tornado and storm researcher at University College London's Hazard Center, told Live Science the phenomenon happens when heat from the ground reacts with the atmosphere.

"This is a type of tornado that is sometimes seen where there is a strong heat source on the ground and the atmosphere is unstable in the lowest kilometre or so near the surface," Smart said.

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An additional 52 charges have been laid against the wedding bus driver who was allegedly speeding when 10 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a crash in the Hunter Valley

9News can reveal Brett Andrew Button now faces a total of 63 charges over the June 11 tragedy at Greta.

The 58-year-old was originally charged with 10 counts of dangerous driving occasioning death and one count of negligent driving causing death, relating to the passengers who died.

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This week, 52 fresh charges have been added, including dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and causing bodily harm by misconduct, most of them relating to the guests who were injured.

Button was behind the wheel of a coach transporting wedding guests to Singleton from the nuptials of Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell at the nearby Wandin Estate winery.

Police claim Button was driving too quickly and allegedly told passengers to "fasten your seatbelts" in the moments before the vehicle lost control at a roundabout and slammed into a guardrail, before tipping onto its side.

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Button was released on strict conditional bail after spending a night in custody.

A court has previously heard he is a devoted family man and is devastated by the incident.

His next appearance is scheduled in Newcastle Local Court on August 9.

Kane Symons, Angus Craig, Rebecca Mullen, Darcy Bulman, Nadene and Kyah McBride, Andrew and Lynan Scott, Tori Cowburn, and Zachary Bray were killed in the crash.

Earlier this week, the NSW government finalised its inquiry into the bus crash but the findings are yet to be released.

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Dua Lipa's hit song Levitating is back in court.

The star and Warner Music Group are facing a multi-million-dollar federal lawsuit in Los Angeles from musician Bosko Kante over copyright claims for the song, which spent 77 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

In a lawsuit filed July 31, Kante claimed the British singer used a talk box recording, made with a device worn around the neck that lets the user shape sounds of a synthesizer or guitar through their mouth, without his permission in three remixes of Levitating.

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It's the third lawsuit to hit Lipa over the 2020 hit.

In June, a court dismissed a complaint from the reggae group Artikal Sound System.

She is involved in ongoing litigation with songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer.

Kante founded and created the mobile talk box company ElectroSpit.

The lawsuit claims music producer Stephen Kozmeniuk approached Kante to create a talk box performance of Levitating.

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Though there was no written contract, Kante claimed they explicitly said the performance would only be used in the original recording and would not be further sampled or re-used.

One of the remixes that allegedly used the recording is the version with rapper DaBaby, which has more than 1.8 billion plays on Spotify alone.

The lawsuit claims Kante is entitled to more than $US20 million ($30.6 million).

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Stars from Taylor Swift to Bad Bunny have been engaged in legal battles over the rights to their music.

Earlier this year, Bad Bunny and some of the music industry's biggest stars wanted a lawsuit that alleges copyright infringement of a 1989 song thrown out of court.

The case concerns musical compositions sampled by over 100 artists in more than 1600 songs.

In May, a Manhattan jury found Ed Sheeran did not infringe upon the copyright of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On in his hit Thinking Out Loud.

CNN has reached out to Warner Music Group and representatives for Dua Lipa for comment.

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A car has been partially swallowed up by a sinkhole on the Gold Coast.

It's believed a broken water main caused the massive sinkhole on Short Street in Southport about 4am.

The silver Peugeot 206 CC, which was engulfed by muddy waters and broken asphalt, has now been removed by council workers.

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No one is believed to have been injured in the incident.

"It's unbelievable, isn't it? A car's taken a swim," one nearby resident said.

The extent of the damage to the car and road is yet to be assessed.

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