Australian Bushfire

A 41-year-old Indian-origin Sikh volunteer was honoured along with three others with the prestigious 2023 New South Wales Australian of the Year Award for supporting the community during floods, bushfires, drought and the pandemic.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called federal elections for May 21 on Sunday, launching a come-from-behind battle to stay in power after three years rocked by floods, bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Several Australian emergency services reported being hit by Facebook's ban on sharing news content in the country Thursday, with pages that carry warnings about Covid outbreaks, bushfires and cyclones rendered blank.

More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a species already in trouble.

Bear, a five-year-old high-energy dog tasked with finding Koalas injured in Australia's devastating bushfires, has rescued 100 such marsupials in the affected areas of New South Wales and Queensland.

Despite a valiant effort from the Gilchrist XI, Ponting's side won by one run in the charity Bushfire Bash.

Many of cricket legends will come out of retirement to play a star-studded charity game to aid Australian bushfire relief at the Junction Oval, Melbourne, on Sunday.

Sachin Tendulkar is currently in Australia for the Bushfire Cricket Bash charity game where he is the coach of Ricky Ponting XI.

Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting were due to come out of retirement to captain the teams to raise money for victims of the blazes.

Novak Djokovic beat Austrian Dominic Thiem in five sets at the Rod Laver Arena to lift the Australian Open title a record extending eighth time.

Australian officials declared a state of emergency for the capital city of Canberra and surrounding regions on Friday, as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to propel a large bushfire beyond the control of firefighters.

Photos of Australian soldiers feeding and cuddling rescued koalas are winning over the internet. The Australian Army shared the pictures on its official Twitter handle.

Australian firefighters are on high alert for the possibility that scorching temperatures and strong winds could whip up new bushfires on Thursday, coming after rain brought welcome respite to fire-ravaged areas.

The dirty rain, blamed on smoke hanging in the air from Australia's raging bushfires, is just the latest hazard at Australian Open.

Bushfires near the Australian capital Canberra forced the city's airport to close on Thursday, as passenger flights were halted to make way for aircraft working to extinguish the blazes, authorities said.

A 41-year-old Indian-origin Sikh volunteer was honoured along with three others with the prestigious 2023 New South Wales Australian of the Year Award for supporting the community during floods, bushfires, drought and the pandemic.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called federal elections for May 21 on Sunday, launching a come-from-behind battle to stay in power after three years rocked by floods, bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Several Australian emergency services reported being hit by Facebook's ban on sharing news content in the country Thursday, with pages that carry warnings about Covid outbreaks, bushfires and cyclones rendered blank.

More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a species already in trouble.

Bear, a five-year-old high-energy dog tasked with finding Koalas injured in Australia's devastating bushfires, has rescued 100 such marsupials in the affected areas of New South Wales and Queensland.

Despite a valiant effort from the Gilchrist XI, Ponting's side won by one run in the charity Bushfire Bash.

Many of cricket legends will come out of retirement to play a star-studded charity game to aid Australian bushfire relief at the Junction Oval, Melbourne, on Sunday.

Sachin Tendulkar is currently in Australia for the Bushfire Cricket Bash charity game where he is the coach of Ricky Ponting XI.

Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting were due to come out of retirement to captain the teams to raise money for victims of the blazes.

Novak Djokovic beat Austrian Dominic Thiem in five sets at the Rod Laver Arena to lift the Australian Open title a record extending eighth time.

Australian officials declared a state of emergency for the capital city of Canberra and surrounding regions on Friday, as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to propel a large bushfire beyond the control of firefighters.

Photos of Australian soldiers feeding and cuddling rescued koalas are winning over the internet. The Australian Army shared the pictures on its official Twitter handle.

Australian firefighters are on high alert for the possibility that scorching temperatures and strong winds could whip up new bushfires on Thursday, coming after rain brought welcome respite to fire-ravaged areas.

The dirty rain, blamed on smoke hanging in the air from Australia's raging bushfires, is just the latest hazard at Australian Open.

Bushfires near the Australian capital Canberra forced the city's airport to close on Thursday, as passenger flights were halted to make way for aircraft working to extinguish the blazes, authorities said.