Japan: Thousands evacuated as biggest fire in decades continues to burn

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country’s biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more…

India: Dozens found alive in metal containers after avalanche

Dozens of construction workers have been pulled out alive from metal containers after they were buried by an avalanche in the Himalayas in India’s Uttarakhand state. They survived – some…