Officials in Nigeria say a boat has capsized in the country's northwest, drowning at least 40 people.
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Electricity will be cut across Ecuador as part of an attempt to improve the country's energy system.
A woman has been killed by a falling tree branch as damaging winds hit the east coast of NSW, bringing gusts up to 100km/h.
Savannah Meacham
A taxi driver has been taken to hospital after being brutally assaulted by a passenger before his car slammed into a popular Chinese restaurant in Northbridge, injuring multiple people.
Caleb Runciman
Two passenger trains have collided in Egypt's Nile Delta, killing at least two people.
Haitians trying to collect petrol from a punctured tanker were "pulverised" when it exploded, a witness said.
A man has been treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Innaloo overnight that police have deemed suspicious.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
A pilot will spend the weekend in hospital with a broken nose and burns after miraculously surviving a plane crash on Friday afternoon.
A mother has recounted how her son desperately tried to put out a blaze ripping through their Canning Vale home just moments after she was confronted with flames and explosions.
The Gold Coast council says a study it commissioned has found significant rain helped reduce the impact of Queensland's worst sewage spill.
Laine Clark
A man in his 20s narrowly escaped serious injury after rolling his car on a regional road south-east of Perth.
Melissa Sheil
A man in his 40s has been taken to hospital for gas inhalation after a gas leak at Bunnings Warehouse in regional WA.
Jessica Moroney
Devastating wildfires are sweeping across southern California hillsides.
Two of three children caught in a house fire that broke out in Sydenham in Melbourne’s northwest have died.
Bryce Luff
Firefighters are battling three major blazes in southern California that are spreading rapidly and prompting thousands of people to flee their homes.
Eugene Garcia and Olga R Rodriguez
A man in his 40s has been flown to hospital from the scene of a serious truck crash in the Wheatbelt.
Lauren Price
French rescuers say they have found the bodies of two Italian and two South Korean climbers close to the peak of Mont Blanc on the French side.
Firefighters hope cooler conditions will help them get a handle on a fierce southern California fire that's spawned gusty winds and lightning strikes.
Three children, aged from one to five, are in a critical condition as police investigate the cause of a house fire and whether they were home alone.
Adrian Black and Melissa Meehan
Local officials in Nigeria says a collision between a fuel truck and a truck carrying travellers and cattle has killed 48 people.
Friends and family have paid tribute to the 23-year-old man who was killed in a crash on Saturday morning in Attadale.
Lisa Thomas
A loving father and dedicated businessman has been revealed as the victim of a devastating fire which ripped through his marine engineering business over the weekend.
Tim Clarke
A man and a woman in their 50s have been flown to Royal Perth Hospital by the RAC rescue helicopter after a serious crash in the Wheatbelt.
Bolivias has seen the largest number of fires since 2010 with at least three million hectares burned this year.
