Australia

Sydney has been hit by its heaviest rain in 30 years, bringing widespread flooding.

There was an immediate threat to life and property from the wildfires, officials say.

Israel Folau was sacked from the Australian national rugby union team last year over homophobic comments he made on social media. Now he's sparked shock by signing for Catalan Dragons.

This year, non-indigenous Australians were asked to give reparations in the form of a donation to the #PayTheRent campaign.

Australian Katharina Haecker took her first Grand Prix Gold at the Tel Aviv Grand Prix beating Canada's Beauchemin-Pinard, making Haecker the Woman of the Day.

The Australian outback town of Broken Hill was blanketed in dust as storms swept over parts of the New South Wales state on Wednesday.

Bad weather brought chaos to parts of Australia, in the form of giant hailstones that pounded the capital Canberra. Wind gusts of 107 kilometers an hour were recorded in Dubbo as the dust storm descended over the town.

Bad weather brought chaos to parts of Australia, in the form of giant hailstones that pounded the capital Canberra. The storm brought down trees, caused flash flooding and inflicted minor injuries on residents.

Matches at the Australian Open may be suspended if air pollution from the recent wildfires poses a risk to the players' health.

A hypnotic animation produced by Copernicus' European Atmospheric Monitoring Service shows how Australian fires have generated so much smoke that it has gone around the world, back to Australia

The German engineering company says they are sticking to their contractual obligations, but climate activists tell Euronews the decision is a "historic mistake".

After a long night of worry, but also of camaraderie, Burragate's tired volunteer firefighters returned to bed early on Saturday.

Sydney's iconic opera house was illuminated in tribute to those battling wildfires as the blazes claimed the life of a professional firefighter

The sails of the Sydney Opera House were illuminated with messages and photographs to show support for firefighters and wildfire-affected communities.

They say coal-fired power plants contribute to global warming and want German firm Siemens to pull out of the project.

Wildfires ravaging Australia have taken a grisly toll on the country's wildlife with hundreds of millions of wild animals believed to have been killed in the blazes, along with thousands of livestock.

Catastrophic bushfires have turned swathes of land into smouldering, blackened landscapes and destroyed an area about the size of the island of Ireland, according to official figures, with authorities warning the disaster still has weeks or months to run.

Grisly images from New South Wales show the remains of animals at the roadside in Batlow where a man also died defending his property from the out of control bushfires.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 23 people have now died in the wildfires so far this summer.

The authorities expect conditions to worsen on Friday and Saturday.

A giant wall of smoke and flames hovers over the Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne, as Australia endures one of the worst days of its months-long bushfire crisis.