At least 100 homes were burned down and 400 people were left homeless on Monday after fire broke out in a slum in the city of Iquique in northern Chile.

Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured in an apartment fire in the Bronx in New York on Sunday.

Police said on Sunday that the fire started in a network of camps in Bangladesh's border district of Cox's Bazar. 

A total of 874 vehicles have been set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve as part of a decades-old tradition.

A fire erupted at the South African parliament in Cape Town on Sunday.

Australia’s former parliament building caught fire during an Aboriginal rights protest, causing limited damage, officials say.

At least 38 people have died in Bangladesh after a deadly fire swept through a ferry in the southern district of Jhalakathi, a fire service official said on Friday (December 24).

Hundreds of prisoners set fire to a Thai jail during a two-day riot over the handling of a coronavirus cluster.

At least 24 people have lost their lives after a fire swept through a building in a shopping district in the Japanese city of Osaka, with police reportedly considering the incident a possible arson.

 At least 45 people are killed when a bus with North Macedonian plates caught fire on a highway in western Bulgaria.