California wildfire: Los Angeles orders 100,000 to evacuate

Somali plane crash lands on runway as media reports say no fatalities among the 30 people on board the flight.

Firefighters in the German capital are still trying to secure an explosives disposal site amid a continuing wildfire. Parts of the wooded area are reportedly also littered with munitions.

Nearly 660,000 hectares of European land have already been destroyed by fires this year, according to EU data. The scale of the destruction this year would be the worst since records began in 2006.

A fast-moving wildfire in northern California has forced thousands of people from their homes. The so-called Mill Fire is moving at a "dangerous rate of speed," officials have said.

2022 was the most devastating year ever for wildfires in France. The Bordeaux region in the country’s south west was especially hard hit. This as the climate emergency seen globally is increasingly making its presence felt in temperate zones. So, how is France now preparing for the summer ahead? Have lessons been learned from last year?

The French-speaking province has become the latest wildfires hotspot in the country. Smoke from the fires has traveled as far away as New York, significantly hindering visibility and prompting air quality alerts.

France, Portugal and Spain, as well as the US, are joining the fight to put out hundreds of active wildfires in Canada. Heavy smoke from wildfires has traveled thousands of miles and shrouded many US cityscapes.

A change in weather has helped Spain's firefighters slow the advance of raging wildfires on the Canary Island of La Palma. Nine helicopters and two airplanes were deployed to fight the blaze.

Greek coastguard vessels were dispatched to rescue tourists and residents trapped on the holiday island of Rhodes, where a wildfire has been raging for several days.

At least 67 people have died in wildfires on Hawaii's Maui island, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the state's history. Residents of the devastated city of Lahain returned home to take stock of the damage.

An estimated 96 people died in the Maui wildfires, but that figure could double or even triple in the next 10 days, the governor said. Search crews are going street by street through devastated neighborhoods.

Activating Hawaii's emergency sirens, primarily used to issue tsunami warnings, could have sent people on Maui from the coast to the burning forests, the head of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency said.