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.

A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation's capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called 'Pizzagate' motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop.

A prominent human rights group is calling on Ottawa to follow the U.S. and declare that recent actions by Sudan's paramilitary force amount to genocide.

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

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area.

An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by around 40 per cent in the first nine months of the war as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unraveled, according to a study published on Thursday.

South Koreas acting leader on Friday accepted the resignation of the chief of the presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, as he faced police questioning over how his forces blocked law enforcement efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol last week.

Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead, his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on Friday.

At least three miners have died after a methane gas explosion caused a coal mine to collapse in a remote area of southwest Pakistan, officials said Friday, as authorities launched an operation to rescue nine other missing workers.

A Canadian Super Scooper aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying in restricted airspace over the devastating blaze on Thursday, the local fire department said.

A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man is set to be released from a psychiatric hospital, a judge ordered Thursday.

A new fire prompted evacuations Thursday in and around Los Angeles even as firefighters aided by calmer winds saw the first signs of successfully beating back the region's deadly and devastating wildfires, while the enormity of the devastation started to emerge.

A series of wildfires tore through densely populated parts of the Los Angeles, Calif. area. Five people have been reported dead. U.S. Gov. Gavin Newsom said thousands of resources have been deployed to contain the fires.

Canada's emergency preparedness minister says Canadian military personnel, their equipment and another 250 firefighters stand "ready to support our American neighbours" as wildfires devastate parts of Southern California.

As fires scorch Los Angeles, fake images and videos of a burning Hollywood sign have circulated on social media.

More evacuations were underway across Los Angeles on Thursday as another fire broke out.

Vice President Kamala Harris is canceling the final foreign trip of her term because of the wildfires in her home state of California, her office announced on Thursday.

As fires scorch Los Angeles, fake images and videos of a burning Hollywood sign have circulated on social media.

More than 4,000 structures have been destroyed in the Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area, as thousands more have burned in the Pacific Palisades community, fire officials said Thursday.

A powerful winter storm brought heavy snow and icy conditions to parts of the U.S. South on Thursday, forcing officials to close schools, cancel flights and warn residents in some of the worst-hit areas to stay off roads as it lumbered eastward through Oklahoma and Texas.