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A blaze burnt a small portion of Winnie the Pooh's forest

Famed for being featured in AA Milnes' Winnie the Pooh tales, Ashdown forest was devastated by a blaze on Sunday night.

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Hindu devotees throw flaming torches during Indian fire festival

Hindu devotees gathered at the temple of warrior goddess Durga Parameshwari on Sunday (April 21) to throw burning torches at each other for an annual fire festival

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Notre Dame choir vows to sing on

The choir at Notre Dame Cathedral are defiant despite last week's fire.

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Paris prays for Notre-Dame's speedy restoration at Easter mass

Parisians held Easter mass at the smaller Saint-Eustache catholic church after Notre-Dame was devastated in a fire on Monday.

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Firefighters honoured at Elysee Palace

Firefighters who battled the Notre-Dame blaze were honoured at the Elysee Palace on Thursday (April 18).

USA

Burned Louisiana black churches raise $1M after Notre Dame fire

"It gives you a new hope in society, it gives you a new hope in people because it shows a lot of people have a good heart," one pastor said.

France

Notre Dame fire: What was lost, what was saved, what we don't know

Notre Dame fire: What was lost, what was saved, what we don't know

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Catholics sing hymns during twilight parade after Notre-Dame fire

Parisian Catholics came together on Tuesday night to sing hymns and to march in tribute to the Notre-Dame cathedral, which was devastated by a fire on Monday.

France

Artists pick up their pencils to pay tribute to Notre Dame cathedral

Here's our selection of the best images.

France

Interactive: See how Notre Dame looked before and after the fire

Click and swipe the central line across the image below to explore how the blaze has altered the appearance of the 12th century structure.

France

Notre Dame fire: investigators probe restoration work

Officials believe the fire that ravaged the world-famous cathedral in Paris was begun acccidentally, and could be linked to restoration work.

France

Why water-bombing aircraft could not save Notre Dame

US President Donald Trump suggested using water-bombing aircraft to extinguish the Notre Dame fire and French authorities shut it down immediately.

France

Notre Dame fire: Social media users and politicians express sadness

"The flames have ravaged 850 years of history, architecture, painting and sculpture," wrote the Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez.

France

Victor Hugo already described flames in Notre Dame cathedral

"On the crest of the highest gallery, higher than the central rose window, there was a great flame rising between the two towers with whirlwinds of sparks, a vast, disordered, and furious flame," he wrote.

USA

Man sets himself on fire outside White House, US Secret Service says

The man was in a "wheelchair-type scooter" and lit his jacket on fire while on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the North Lawn's fence, the Secret Service said.

USA

After three historic black churches go up in flames, parishioners pull together

"It's sad that our society has stooped this low to do something like that," said the pastor of a historic African-American church.

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Fire erupts on bus in Peru, at least 20 dead

Authorities said at least 20 people were killed when a fire broke out on a bus on the northern outskirts of Peru's capital Lima on Sunday.

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Firefighters battle deadly Dhaka building fire

A fire in a high-rise office building in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday killed 17 people and injured about 70 others, officials said.

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More than a dozen killed in high-rise building blaze in Bangladesh

The cause of the deadly fire was not immediately clear.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh high-rise building blaze kills at least 19 people

A huge fire broke out in a 19-storey building in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 73.