SYDNEY, March 27 (Xinhua/APP): Australia's New South Wales (NSW) is considering lockdown after a record 145 "source unknown" COVID-19 cases were reported, the local government said Friday. Until 6:30 a.m.
Sydney, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Australia's "black summer" of devastating bushfires is finally coming to a close, but bitter arguments over how to tackle climate-fuelled disasters are raging on. When firefighters
Sydney, Feb 10 (AFP/APP): Australia's months-long bushfires crisis will likely be over within days, officials said Monday as heavy rainfall extinguished several massive blazes and was forecast to douse dozens
SYDNEY, Jan. 16 (Xinhua/APP): Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in protecting an extremely rare grove of ancient trees from destruction, with specialist teams going to extreme measures as bushfires closed
Sydney, Jan 13 (AFP/APP): Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires.
Hillville, Australia, Nov 12 (AFP/APP): Dozens of fires fanned by gale-force winds, scorching temperatures and tinder-dry bushland burned out of control in eastern Australia on Tuesday, as residents up and