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.

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

The cause of the deadly fire was not immediately clear.

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.

Eyewitness footage posted to social media late on Tuesday showed billowing smoke and large flames from a large fire on Saddleworth Moor.

Dozens of wild fires tore through southern Chile on Tuesday (February 13) destroying scores of homes in the South American country.

Efforts to restore Brazil's National Museum are still underway five months after it was engulfed in a devastating fire.

Fire swept through an unlicensed lodging at the training center of Rio de Janeiro soccer club Flamengo on Friday, killing 10 members of the club’s youth team and injuring three more, one of them seriously.

10 people were killed and many more injured in the worst residential blaze in the French capital for 14 years

The blaze consumed an eight-story building in the city's 16th district and was brought under control by firefighters. Thirty-seven people, including six firefighters, were injured during the rescue where the brigade saved more than 50 people from the flames.

The death toll could rise, authorities fear.

Two people died and 25 were injured after a fire broke out early on Sunday (January 20) in a building in the French ski resort of Courchevel.

Two people have been killed and more than 20 injured after a large fire broke out in the French ski resort of Courchevel.