Australia
Animal hospitals are working flat out to tend to rescued and injured animals.
As fires threaten Sydney, the nation's deputy prime minister dismissed “raving inner city lunatics” over concerns that climate change could be worsening the disaster.
Parts of Australia have declared a state of emergency as firefighters race to contain widespread bushfires. At least three people have died so far as parts of the nation brace for worse conditions in the coming days.
Australian soccer's governing body said it had reached an agreement with the players' union on a new collective bargaining agreement that "closes the pay gap" between the Socceroos and Matildas.
The patient snorted a cannabis-filled balloon before going into prison and thought he had swallowed it, doctors said.
Another Brit suffered 'serious lacerations to his lower leg'.
Media groups say press freedoms in the country remain restricted.
A Fiordland penguin was found underweight and in poor health in Kennett River near Melbourne, Australia, after travelling 1,500 miles from New Zealand in search of food
A baby humpback whale has been rescued after becoming trapped in nets off the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Incredible footage of the event shows the calf’s mother watching on as authorities took three hours to complete the rescue.
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