More than 80 bushfires are burning across Victoria and South Australia states as temperatures continued to top 40C (104F).
Southwest Airlines says it cannot explain how the packed aircraft landed seven miles from its intended destination.
The jet, carrying two pilots and two passengers, was alight after coming down near an airfield, damaging an electricity pylon.
One of the world’s largest museums has launched an ambitious project to 3D scan its collection.
The man managed to get his two boys on to a surfboard and they were taken to safety, but attempts to revive him failed.
The US military sees its second helicopter crash in as many days following the crash that killed four in England.
Windchills of nearly -50C (-60F) are threatening to turn states in the north and northwest US into an icy deep freeze.
At least 16 people have died due to blizzard-like conditions battering the eastern half of the US, leaving nearly two feet of snow.
A private jet has crashed and burst into flames while landing at an airport in the US state of Colorado.
Fourteen people have been killed and dozens more are trapped after a building collapsed in the Indian state of Goa.
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