More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the US were being rushed to California on Wednesday to help battle infernos, which have left at least 23 people dead and thousands homeless.

At least 24 people, mostly teenager boys, have lost their lives in a fire at an Islamic school in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.

Authorities in southern Spain say they are fighting a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of 500 residents from at least seven towns in the province of Seville.

The city of Los Angeles is under siege from a bushfire which the city's mayor has described as the largest in its history.

Around 3,000 firefighters have tried to battle over 150 wildfires raging across Portugal.

More than 3,000 firemen have struggled to put out forest fires across Portugal, after the country requested assistance from Europe to fight blazes that threaten to spread with more hot weather in the coming days.

Italian police arrest 15 firefighters suspected of starting wildfires to earn €10 per hour for putting them out.

The Japanese capital's 80-year-old fish market caught fire amid the government's push to relocate the location of the tourist site.

Goodwin Fire has caused evacuation and road blocks in parts of the US state of Arizona.

The blaze, which prompted evacuations of over a thousand people in the state of Utah, has been mostly restrained.