Authorities are continuing to battle out-of-control bushfires across Victoria, which have already claimed dozens of properties. Meanwhile, extreme heatwave warnings remain in place for NSW, ACT and WA. Follow live.

CFA volunteer Michael Harper discovers through the truck radio while on shift that his home is under threat.

Everywhere you look around the Irvines' farm near Alexandra are signs of the fire that surrounded their home and burnt right up to the front porch.

Four years after the Taliban's return to power, security is no longer the defining issue in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the world's worst humanitarian crises is exacerbated by a series of overlapping disasters.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji makes landfall in north Queensland as a tropical low, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. Follow live.

While debate rages over the legality and the potential fallout from America's incursion, there's been a quiet acceptance that it is all about oil.