Wildfires burning across more than a quarter of a million acres in Washington state have prompted widespread evacuations, while other US states are enduring record-breaking heat.

Before initiating a war, you must understand why and what you want to achieve. Trump didn’t, and his actions are leading to a less stable Middle East, and a more assertive Iran.

Police are working to determine the identity and motive of a shooter who opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls.

Eleven passengers from Germany, Italy and Spain, plus two crew, were on board when their tourist plane crashed near the world-famous Nazca Lines.

On a warm summer night, London’s annual classical music festival is a cheerful, inexpensive change of pace.

The fresh alert comes after President Donald Trump warned US forces would hit Iran “very hard” until the country could not take any more.

The purple state of Michigan will be crucial to stopping Trump at the midterm elections. The decision Democratic voters make this week could be make or break for that agenda.

Sixty-seven people died when thousands of young people swam, walked around the rocks or charged through the border checkpoints to get from Morocco into Ceuta.

High numbers of deaths during Ceuta migration crisis challenge local authorities

On the Moroccan border, a man speaks about the difficulties of crossing.

Tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbours Morocco. By the following evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.

The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed, including some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

The notes, made public six months on from the 84-year-old’s disappearance, suggest that whoever was responsible for her abduction may not have intended to kill her.

Ukrainian soldiers are being given more medical training to adapt to a front line where Russian drones can make medical evacuation almost impossible.

FIFA is considering privatising the World Cup, but the plan has met fierce resistance.

In a Friday afternoon court filing, the government moved to dismiss criminal charges against a former Olympian they accused of vandalism, and admitted Trump’s rush to ready the pool by July 4 contributed to the situation.

Experts suggest the president’s surprise announcement that Hamas would begin disarming will bring more complications for both sides.

Local police in Arizona have released two ransom notes believed to be written by Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers.

As the nation faces its worst fire season in living memory, France has called on pilots and aircraft from other countries for help.

The mayor-president of Ceuta, Juan Jesus Vivas, said 60,000 people rushed over the border. The Spanish Interior Ministry claimed almost all the arrivals had returned.