Joe Root contributed 160 to England's first-innings tally of 384 but Travis Head drove Australia to 166 for two in response.

The scorching forecast has led to extreme fire danger warnings, with wind and dry lightning tipped to add to the risk.

Millions of people living on the expanding outskirts of Australia’s major cities face an increasing risk of urban wildfires ...

Australia's capital cities are increasingly at risk of being affected by a major fire like the one that ravaged Los Angeles ...

Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...

The cost of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries is running at nearly three times those of normal house fires, a top insurer has revealed.

Most of those killed were teenagers and came from all over Europe, with some so badly burnt their families had to provide DNA ...

From tropical cyclones to torrential floods and fire alerts, Australia battles a perfect storm of extreme weather events ...

An Australian has been injured in a horror blaze that killed at least 40 people at a crowded New Year’s Eve bar in the Swiss ...

Rangesh “N3on” found himself at the center of online debate after a short clip from his Australia trip spread fast on social ...

The Chinese president gave a New Year’s Eve speech calling for reunification after a week of expansive live fire drills.