Aided by local residents, hundreds of Portuguese firefighters scrambled to put out flames sweeping across a natural park.

A fire blazed on a cargo ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled much of his cabinet with the aim of increasing focus on economic issues.

Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives face an uphill battle this week passing their first two fiscal 2024 spending bills, with hardline demands for lower spending levels threatening to divide Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s narrow majority.

Six people were injured in New York on Wednesday when the top portion of a construction crane caught fire and crashed into a Manhattan street during the morning rush hour, authorities said.

As the time Christchurch woman Yanfei Bao has been missing spans one week, police say the dive squad has been deployed to assist.

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged New Caledonia to forge a common future after the most recent ‘no’ independence vote.

The young woman stares at a charred beach umbrella lying in the sand and sighs.

Ash fall from the erupting Mt Bagana in central Bougainville has collapsed a number of traditional houses.

A project has been set up to save a rare French Polynesian bird from extinction.

Vanuatu chiefs have called on its government to ask the visiting French President to acknowledge that the Matthew and Hunter islands belong to them and not to New Caledonia.

Extreme weather has been battering Italy from north to south.