Pakistan floods cause food crisis

<p>From the BBC World Service: Record-breaking floods across Pakistan are estimated to have washed away 45% of the nation&#8217;s croplands and with resources on the ground in short supply, delivering aid is a mammoth task. Australia&#8217;s government is moving quickly to try to address a chronic worker shortage that&#8217;s left businesses scrambling across the country; it will raise its cap on permanent migration for the first time in a decade. And nations in the Western Balkans are meeting to discuss more regional economic co-operation.</p>