Australia

Australian authorities are probing the possibility of repatriating more than 100 children from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in central China.

Three cases of the deadly coronavirus have been confirmed in New South Wales, bringing the total nationwide to four.

The NSW Rural Fire Service is investigating reports of a serious incident involving an aircraft in southern NSW.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is defending his bushfire response, and suggesting media are to blame for only highlighting the way people have acted “hostile” towards him.

The Australian Capital Territory and its neighbouring town of Queanbeyan have cancelled this year’s fireworks displays.

Residents in the path of wildfires razing southeast Australia have been urged to evacuate if they don’t intend to defend their homes.

Australia has accepted PNG’s offer to deploy 100 troops to help conduct bushfire recovery work.

Feral camels in South Australia are set to be killed in a bid to stop them drinking too much water as droughts and fires ravage the country.

New South Wales Police have caught 24 alleged firebugs accused of deliberately lighting bushfires in a catastrophic season that has so far killed 18 people in the Australian state.

Two people are unaccounted for in fire-ravaged parts of south-east NSW as light rains and milder temperatures were expected to bring some relief to firefighters across the state.

Strong winds that have changed direction are hampering efforts by firefighters to contain bushfires in Australia’s south-east.

Three fires have combined to form a single blaze bigger than the New York borough of Manhattan.