5 h. ago Large fires are burning on the slopes of South Africa's famous Table Mountain

Helicopters are dropping water on large fires burning on the slopes of South Africa’s famous Table Mountain

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33 h. ago Quirky interior design firm that supplied furniture for King Charles' sprawling Cornwall manor is 'destroyed' in horror blaze

Sharing the news on social media, traders said '30 years of antiques, tools, and new machines have been destroyed' adding owner James Petrie had got burn injuries trying to put the fire out.

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62 h. ago Grenfell Tower fridge maker did not run adequate safety checks, council claims

Kensington and Chelsea claims Hotpoint model contained materials that could ‘burn easily’ in lawsuit arising from 2017 fire

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4 d. ago Fire plea after Birmingham resident burns recycling inside home amid bin strike

Rubbish has been piling up in the streets since hundreds of bin workers walked out on March 11 in a dispute with Birmingham City Council.

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4 d. ago Forecasters warn of fire risk amid low humidity, wind gusts as Pine Barrens fire burns

Forecasters are warning of low humidity and gusty wind increased the risk fire could spread across parts of New Jersey, Philadelphia and its suburbs and Delaware as firefighters continued to battled a vast wildfire in the Pine Barrens

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4 d. ago Why were hundreds of koalas shot in an aerial cull in Victoria?

Shooting of marsupials has sparked outrage but government says ‘compassionate’ response was needed after bushfire destroyed 2,200 hectares of national parkThe Victorian government has used aircraft to shoot about 700 koalas in south-west Victoria.The government says the unprecedented step was taken to prevent further suffering of the animals, after a fire in Budj Bim national park burned through 2,200 hectares, including a large area of manna gum, a key food source for koalas in the park. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Left alone by humans, wildlife returns to the Eaton Fire burn area

Four months after the Los Angeles area wildfires tore through the Angeles National Forest and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in Altadena, wildlife is returning to the Eaton Fire burn area and scientists are closely tracking them

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5 d. ago Son watches dad being set on fire and burned alive after neighbour row over tree

Colin Bainbridge was devastatingly burned alive last March in regional Victoria, Australia, after he and a neighbour exchanged expletive insults - his son watched the horror unfold

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6 d. ago Dad set on fire and burned alive in front of screaming son after neighbour row over garden

Joshua Bainbridge said the world was a worse place after his 66-year-old dad Colin was murdered by neighbour Stuart Lee, who poured petrol over him and set him alight

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7 d. ago Two vehicles found burning in Bates Woods Park in New London, fire chief says

Two vehicles found burning in Bates Woods Park in New London, fire chief says  New Haven Register

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1 week ago My schizophrenic uncle set me on fire leaving half my body covered in horrific burns

Terry Dunnage, a builder from Portsmouth, was left feeling as though he was going to die when he was set on fire by his paranoid schizophrenic uncle in 2007, leaving 46 per cent of his body burned.

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1 week ago Kicking up a stink: row over sewage pollution blighting Cape Town’s beaches

Campaigners say authorities should be doing more to clean up waters around city of nearly 5 million peopleOn a clear summer’s day in Cape Town, the Milnerton Lagoon was serene, reflecting the bright blue sky and Table Mountain. But there was an unmistakable stench, and up close, the water was murky.A few hundred metres away, adults and children played in the water as it flowed into Table Bay. On the boardwalk, a sign read: “Polluted water: for health reasons, swimming and recreational activities are at your own risk.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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2 w. ago Moment woman's trendy firepit goes horribly wrong... and burns her neighbours' gardens down

TikTokker 'Moll' shared the clip of her beloved backyard engulfed by flames, as the fire ravaged her home before threatening to spread to her neighbours' properties.

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2 w. ago Wildfire above Welsh train station sees fire service tell residents to 'shut windows and doors'

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service performed a 'tactical burn'

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2 w. ago Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in Los Angeles wildfires

Members of a 104-year-old Pasadena synagogue that was burned down in the Los Angeles fires in January are getting ready to celebrate Passover

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2 w. ago The state of the scarred Welsh countryside as wildfires take hold

Wales has been plagued by huge fires in recent weeks, as the environment has been left burnt and damaged

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3 w. ago Embittered burns surgeon dressed in camouflage tried to set fire to home of his doctor boss  

After trying to kill Graeme Perks, Peter Brooks was found on a park bench the next morning muttering about his 'life being ruined' and that he was 'going to be sacked from his job at the hospital'.

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3 w. ago The death toll in the North Macedonia nightclub fire rises to 60 after a burn victim dies

North Macedonia's health minister says a critically injured burn victim from a nightclub fire last month in an eastern town has died while receiving treatment in Lithuania

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3 w. ago Battle to save homes as Russian drone strike on Kharkiv leaves 4 dead

Firefighters battled to save residents from burning homes as Kharkiv was hit by an overnight Russian drone attack today (4 Apr.)

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