As the fire roared down a hillside toward their Altadena home, Vanessa Prata and her parents hurried to pack their car. They focused on saving irreplaceable items, like family photographs and a baby doll from Vanessa's childhood.

As Los Angeles continues to battle one of the most destructive wildfires in its history, experts say the devastation signals a troubling trend fuelled by a larger climate crisis.

The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area rose to 16 as crews battled to cut off the spreading blazes before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward some of the city's most famous landmarks.

Some people across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that give respite from heat and air pollution.

An explosion at a gas station triggered a massive fire in central Yemen, killing at least 15 people, health officials said Sunday.

The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area rose to 16 as crews battled to cut off the spreading blazes before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward some of the city's most famous landmarks.

An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 11 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his sons bedside.

U.S. Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department effective Friday, according to a court filing.

An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 11 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his sons bedside.

A bus accident on a highway in northeastern Germany on Saturday left two people dead and another four seriously injured, police said.

A vintage green-leather Rolex watch case. An Alekos Fassianos painting. A hard drive and albums with family photos. Phone chargers and laptops. Medications and passports, of course. Some clothes. Most importantly, the pets.

Tens of thousands of California residents will decide whether to permanently relocate or rebuild their homes after the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history.

A group of good Samaritans teamed up with law enforcement this week to save an elderly woman pinned underneath her car in Lawerence, Mass.

Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, a larger question loomed: Could this level of devastation somehow have been minimized, or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities?

Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisele Pelicot who sustained years of horrific sexual abuse by her then-husband and other men, has described how shes certain her father drugged her and strongly suspects she was raped too.

The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people.

Japanese police arrested a student suspected of a hammer attack at a Tokyo university, which local media said left several injured.

Since the flames erupted in and around Los Angeles, scores of residents have returned to their still smoldering neighborhoods even as the threat of new fires persisted and the nation's second-largest city remained unsettled.

Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls.

The extent of the damage from wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area is horrific however it's tallied: Neighbourhoods have been erased, landmarks destroyed and lives lost.

Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Friday for continuing to spread lies about two former Georgia election workers after a jury awarded the women a US$148 million defamation judgment.

Firefighters are hoping for a break Friday from the fierce winds that have fuelled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighbourhoods and setting the nation's second-largest city on edge.

Socialite Paris Hilton shared a video showing her ravaged house, destroyed by the L.A. wildfires., 'Im standing here in what used to be our home, and the heartbreak is truly indescribable,' Hilton wrote on Instagram.

The Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Years Day in New Orleans shot at police from inside his truck before officers fatally shot him, police bodycam footage released Friday shows.

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 3.7 shook part of the San Francisco Bay Area and people reported feeling a quick jolt. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major property damage.