UN officials surveying quake damage in Myanmar have urged the global community to ramp up aid before the looming monsoon season worsens already catastrophic conditions.

Tourists and residents have been evacuated after a volcano in Iceland began spewing lava and smoke, though flights have not been affected.

The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at health agencies in the US, according to multiple sources, with security guards barring entry to some workers just hours after they received dismissal notices.

Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the UN have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN officials say.

Signs of life have been detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok and people have been freed from collapsed buildings in Myanmar after a strong in Southeast Asia.

Remnants of an ex-cyclone are set to bring more wet weather to a sodden Queensland, triggering fears flooding could worsen.