Eight killed and seven missing in Australian bushfires
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Eight people were confirmed dead and at least seven others were still missing after Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years swept parts of two southern states.
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Australia has mobilised the army as some of the worst bushfires in 70 years threatened homes and shrouded Victoria state in thick smoke that closed the airport and grounded firefighting aircraft.
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The Australian death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunamis has risen to six and 11 others still missing are feared dead, the government said yesterday.
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Forest fires fed by winds off the Sahara and still burning out of control in northern Algeria have claimed eight lives in the past 48 hours, the country&#39;s civil protection services said Thursday.
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Hundreds of thousands of native  Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been  killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia  in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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CANBERRA, Australia - Wildfires on the island of Tasmania have destroyed at least 22 houses Monday, a local official said.  The fires gutted houses on the fringes of the island's northeast town of St.
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A firestorm razed up to 15 houses and led to the death of a man as bushfires raging across thousands of square kilometers of Australia began overrunning country hamlets, officials said.
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A fire that broke out in a cold storage facility has killed at least seven people and left 32 missing Monday in Icheon, South Korea, fire officials told CNN.
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Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 unaccounted for in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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Australian firefighters are battling to limit the damage caused by the season's first bushfires.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Scores of firefighters Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four homes and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Australia, emergency officials said.
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Smoke from bushfires burning hundreds of  kilometers away blanketed Australia's second largest city  Melbourne on Saturday, delaying flights and setting off fire  alarms at the city's airport.
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At least seven people were killed and 22 injured on Friday after a bus exploded in flames in southern Nepal, police and local media said.
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The prime minister promised an investigation Friday into Croatia's worst firefighting tragedy, in which six men were killed and seven badly injured when they were trapped battling a fierce forest blaze. via PR-inside.com
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Australian police have launched a hunt for arsonists who lit a fatal wildfire in Victoria, as authorities said 32 homes had been razed in the inferno that has gripped the state for a fortnight.
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Firefighters around Australia's largest city have tamed a spate of wildfires that destroyed seven homes and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.