A house fire has claimed the lives of three people whose bodies were found in a granny flat at the rear of an outer suburban property.
Nick Wilson
As fires continue to ravage parts of Europe, forcing mass evacuations and devastating tens of thousands of hectares, authorities warn there is worse to come.
Staff Writers
New national safety standards mandating minimum drop heights for firefighting aircraft have been introduced to address gaps exposed by a near-fatal Boeing 737 crash in WA’s South West.
Charlton Hart
A motorist has died in a crash near Perth Airport on Wednesday morning as WA’s horror week on the roads continues.
Rhianna Mitchell
Firefighters have made headway against a major blaze west of Bordeaux, but rising temperatures mean the danger of France's biggest wildfire is yet to pass.
Two young daughters of a woman violently stabbed by her partner before he fled and caused a deadly head-on collision were exposed to ‘traumatic events no child should ever have to experience’.
Brooke Rolfe
A suspected white phosphorus leak at a US military base near the South Korean capital Seoul has prompted local officials to alert residents.
Crews fighting massive blazes in France and Spain are making the most of the favourable weather before another round of scorching heat rolls across Europe.
Yves Herman and Javi West Larranaga
About 220,000 people have been evacuated in France, while in neighbouring Spain more than 75,000 people have been told to leave their homes due to wildfires.
A water outage has left passengers at the United Kingdom's second busiest airport without access to toilets.
A Vietnamese cargo ship with 62 aboard has sunk in the South China Sea, as authorities search for 23 people who remain missing.
A young ringer is recovering after a kangaroo crashed into his leg on an outback station, a freak accident he and emergency workers will never forget.
Stephanie Gardiner
A horror 24-hours on WA roads has resulted in five people being killed across four separate crashes, with the State heading towards its worst road toll since 2008.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
A house has gone up in flames in Perth’s south-east, triggering a smoke warning and a major emergency response.
Two people have died and another has been critically injured in a horror head-on crash on North West Coastal Highway near Karratha.
Two men have lost their lives in separate crashes on regional WA roads just minutes apart.
Rebecca Nadge
A woman has died after a fiery late-night crash that turned one of Perth’s busiest highways into a major emergency scene.
Troy de Ruyter
Authorities evacuated thousands of people from suburbs near Bordeaux as wildfires in areas around the French city showed no signs of abating.
Tens of thousands of people have fled a wildfire in southern France while Spain has declared its first national fire emergency as extreme heat scorches Europe.
Michael Francis Gore and Stephane Mahe
A man has died after his Mini Coupe veered off the road in Wuraming, west of Boddington and collided with a tree on Friday afternoon.
Melissa Sheil
A fire at a Narrogin petrol station on Wednesday night came within metres of the site’s fuel stores, with firefighters containing the blaze before it spread.
There are more than 50 people still missing after a landslide last week in China, with the death toll having been raised to 11.
Xiuhao Chen
A raging wildfire has burned thousands of hectares in France, forcing over 10,000 people to evacuate as hundreds of firefighters battle to control the blaze.
Heavy rain has wreaked "unprecedented devastation" in northern India and flooded neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing more than 80 people.
