Towering flames have razed the entire town of Maryville in southeastern Australia. And according to authorities on Sunday, some of the fleeing residents were burned alive in their cars.
An out-of-control forest fire has destroyed isolated farm houses, threatened villages and burned olive groves.
Italy´s deadliest earthquake in 3 decades hit 26 towns and cities around L´Aquila, the epicenter.
The Airbus 330-200 was bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The control center lost contact with the plane shortly after its takeoff from Rio de Janeiro.
American pop icon Michael Jackson was announced dead here Thursday at a hospital after suffering a heart arrest at his rented home in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.
A strong earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Pacific island nation of Samoa on early Wednesday.
Typhoon Ketsana and Parma slam into Philippines cause flooding, mudslides and falling trees. Flooding, mudslides and falling trees have killed nearly two dozen people.
Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood US Army base in Texas.
Philippine security forces have recovered 45 bodies of people that include politicians and journalists abducted Monday in a pre-election related incidence in restive southern Philippine province of Maguindanao.