Police in Brazil have seized 444 containers in an investigation into illegal logging in the country's vast Amazon, as the nation seeks to cut down on the widespread practice.

NASA has launched a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying a Joint Polar Satellite System-1 satellite.

Fire brigade units battled forest fires that have been burning for several days in the north of Italy in the early hours of Monday.

The World Health Organization says it is boosting its response to a plague outbreak in Madagascar that has killed 24 people.

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.

A woman has died after her car was swept away by a flash flood caused by torrential rain in the northern Italian Dolomites mountain range.

A forest in central Portugal has left scores of people dead and injured.

Raging forest fires in Portugal have killed at least 62 people, many of them burnt to death in their cars, in the country's worst such disaster in recent history.

The AG600 was designed to extinguish forest fires and carry out rescue missions at sea.

Authorities in Chile evacuate thousands as fire tears through forests in the center of the country.