With wildfires now widespread and frequent, some rural residents in Canada are learning how to fight the flames themselves and protect their own homes.

Typhoon Dolphin made landfall on Sunday evening, affecting Shanghai and other parts of eastern China.

Video shows a lorry being blown over after heavy rain and winds continued to batter Wenzhou, a city in China's eastern Zhejiang province.

Global oceans recorded their hottest July on record, partly fuelled by developing El Niño conditions, as wildfires continue to ravage western Europe.

Scientists have worked out what is going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human smiling or scowling.

Some parts of England could see up to 96 per cent of the moon covering the sun on 12 August.

Up to 95% of the Sun will slowly disappear behind the Moon in the most dramatic eclipse visible from the UK since August 1999.

More than 12,000 people have been forced to evacuate over the weekend after a wildfire quickly tore through Canada's picturesque Okanagan region.