A fierce, wind-driven wildfire swept through foothills and canyons along the northern edge of Los Angeles on Friday.

Police in Australia say some of the devastating wildfires that are ripping through the country’s east are suspicious of having been “purposefully started.”

Hundreds of angry Bolivians demonstrated in central La Paz, appealing for international help to fight the raging wildfires devastating large areas of the Bolivian Amazon.

World leaders and protesters across the world call on Brazil's President Bolsonaro to take action against massive fires burning in the Amazon rainforest.

Some 4,000 have been evacuated in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, as a wildfire wiped through populated areas.

Wildfire in the Canary Islands led to the partial evacuation of a small town in Gran Canaria island on Saturday, and officials said the blaze had a "great potential" to spread.

Local authorities evacuated 500 residents from the villages of Kontodespoti and Makrimalli and the monastery of Panagia Makrymallis on the Greek island of Euboea on Tuesday as fire-fighters tackled raging wildfires.

Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria hit by wildfires.

Firefighters battled a series of wildfires in Britain on Wednesday, including a large moorland blaze outside the northern English city of Manchester.

Strong winds are fanning forest fires that have been burning for a week through New Zealand's South Island, forcing thousands of people from their homes.