Hundreds of colourful drones performed a light show in the night sky above Athens on Sunday (August 29).

A key town will likely be spared from a week-long inferno consuming so much of the Greek island of Evia partly because water-bombing helicopters have finally fully entered the battle, the local mayor said.

Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday.

Turkey says its security forces have detained 13 suspected members of the Gulen movement while they were trying to flee to Greece.

Fires blazed uncontrolled for a fifth day in Greece on Saturday, ravaging swathes of land on its second-biggest island of Evia.

With swathes of neighboring Turkey also aflame, the smoke-filled skies have added to apocalyptic images of floods and fire seen across Europe this summer.

Dozens of Democrats in the US House of Representatives call on the president to immediately close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

Greek authorities told people in Athens to stay indoors on Wednesday as a wildfire raging uncontrolled north of the city covered the sky in a thick cloud of smoke.

COVID restrictions trigger mass potests in cities of several countries across the globe.

A Japanese art collective has created a mesmerizing environment in a forest where nature and technology come together.