DW's Stuart Braun had a dangerously near miss during Australia's 2009 "Black Saturday" inferno. As this month's fires burned near his rural home, he wasn't taking any chances....
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...
South Africa's most renowned national reserve has shut its gates amid escalating floodwaters and heavy rainfall, which has already claimed at least 19 lives....
A surfer has been attacked by a shark in the fourth incident along the coast of New South Wales in 48 hours. Meanwhile, beaches have been closed across Sydney....
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Transport Minister Oscar Puente were among those making their way to the crash site on Monday morning. Sanchez cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum i...
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
An overnight Russian bombardment on Kyiv left thousands of residential buildings and parliament without heating and water in -14C temperatures on Tuesday, just as the Ukrainian capital was scrambling ...
The death toll from a high-speed train collision in southern Spain rose to 40 on Monday as the government vowed a full investigation into its causes. The crash late on Sunday is Spain's deadliest trai...
The Spanish government vowed Monday to conduct a full investigation into the causes of a high-speed train collision that killed at least 39 people, with officials warning the death toll could rise as ...
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on ‌Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...