Dramatic mobile footage shows the moment a Dutch family drive through raging California wildfire.

Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah is provisionally suspended by the ICC after failing a drugs test last month.

The head of Israel's missile defence programmes has been dismissed for a "breach of security", the defence ministry says.

Benin's Prime Minister walks away unscathed after the helicopter in which he was travelling crashes in the country's north-west.

Residents of areas hit by bushfire in Australia's southern Victoria state begin returning home after evacuation orders are lifted, officials say.

A 92-year-old Argentine activist who thought she was reunited with her long-missing granddaughter is "devastated" after the woman turned out to be a stranger.

At least 18 people are now known to have died after days of tornadoes and heavy rains in US south-central states, as a "historic blizzard" is expected.

Vast areas in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are being hit by the worst flooding in 50 years, forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people.