Two lorries collided on the motorway near Bologna airport in northern Italy on Monday, causing a major explosion and killing at least two people, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Firefighters in Portugal and Spain were on high alert over the weekend as the heatwave continued across Europe

Firefighter in Spain and Portugal continued to battle wildfires on Monday after the heatwave parched the landscape

The temperatures may have started to ease from their near- record highs in Portugal but fires has raged for a third day in the south of the country.

An 85-year-old man has died in hospital after being burned in last months fire in the coastal town of Mati in Greece, bringing the number of fatalities to 90

Over 700 firefighters are attempting to contain a wildfire in Portugal and a heatwave across Iberia shows little sign of cooling down

Israel has halted fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip because of incendiary balloons and kites being launched from the enclave

A heatwave this week across Portugal and Spain has prompted a warning about possible wild fires

Firefighters say erratic winds and dry conditions have caused the Carr fire to grow

Sweden's air force employed an unusual tactic to try and put out a wildfire — dropping a bomb on it!

Australia's biggest city has all but vanished as brush fire clearances on the outskirts create thick smoke.

Plaintiffs charge EU with establishing inadequate greenhouse gas reductions, and failing to ensure the already inadequate cuts are respected. A group action is trying to force the EU to make tougher laws.

Portugal has started the process of recovering huge areas of forest lost in fires that struck the country last year. On Sunday over 3,000 volunteers planted around 67,000 trees in Leiria in central Portugal. More than 80 percent of the pine forest was lost in the blazes that also claimed 114 lives.

A fire at a drug abuse treatment centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, has killed 24 people.

Bushfires sweep across three states whipped up by high winds