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Former Wellingtonian Tim O'Brien lives mere streets away from the evacuation zone of the Eaton fire, and said he was very aware of the potential sudden need to get out.

The actor and director says his Malibu home was destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires while he was away recording a podcast with Joe Rogan in Texas.

An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy and a former child TV star from Australia were among the deaths known so far in the fires raging around Los Angeles.

The museum's collection comprises 125,000 artworks - including paintings by Rembrandt, Turner, Van Gogh and Monet - and 1.4 million documents

Ukrainian President says forces operating in the Kursk region of Russia have captured two North Korean soldiers, marking the first time that Ukraine has captured alive soldiers from the isolated…

After a mammoth rescue effort, inquiries are being made into how the animals ended up roaming free in the Scottish Highlands.

The largest of the blazes has spread toward previously untouched neighborhoods, forcing new evacuations and dimming hopes the disaster was coming under control.

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the crashed Jeju Air jet stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure, the country's transport ministry says.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose nearly 12 years in office have been marked by deep economic and social crisis, has been sworn in for a third term, despite a long election dispute and…

Sydney police are investigating after offensive graffiti was found spray-painted on a synagogue and a house. It follows a series of anti-Semetic graffiti incidents in the city.

Tensions between France and its former colony mounted after Algeria sent back a suspect who had been arrested and expelled for a video posted on TikTok.

A law signed by President Joe Biden will force the sale or ban of the popular short-video app by 19 January in the United States.

The company is the latest to pull back from such practices in the wake of pressure from conservative critics and customers.

Ali Riley thanked the firefighters and first responders "still out there fighting for our friends and neighbours".

The fires, which have devastated neighbourhoods on the east and west sides of Los Angeles, have so far killed 10 people.

Wipari Henwood was one of dozens of New Zealand firefighters deployed in 2018 to help tackle a string of destructive wildfires in Northern California.

Southern California was underwater less than a year ago. Now, the weather pendulum has swung the other way. Audio

A man notorious for shooting up a pizzeria where here believed prominant Democrats including Hillary Clinton were running a child sex ring has been shot and killed during a police traffic stop.