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Caption:Six lives have been lost since the start of the fire season in Australia.Photo credit:AFP
A dehydrated and injured Koala receives treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie on November 2, 2019, after its rescue from a bushfire.
A bushfire burns outside a property near Taree, 350km north of Sydney on November 12, 2019.
A day after the crash, airport workers prepare to remove a crashed helicopter that collided with another helicopter in Gold Coast on 2 January, 2023, killing four.
Australian woman Jana Armstrong, whose body was discovered in bush on 11 July.
People jump in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower during a heatwave in Paris on June 22, 2026. The latest bout of exceptionally high temperatures to hit Europe has seen outdoor events cancelled, transport disrupted, schools shut and office workers told to work from home, as the authorities issued health alerts to protect the elderly and vulnerable. In France, the epicentre of the weather anomaly, 54 of the country’s 96 mainland departments were on the highest heat alert, with temperatures forecast to climb up to 43C in the southwestern city of Bordeaux and 39C in the capital Paris, said national weather service Meteo-France. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
Firefighters at the scene after the fire, which destroyed Grant Whelan’s home.
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Sam Neill and Guyon Espiner sit down for an interview as part of 30 with Guyon Espiner, on location at Two Paddocks in Central Otago.
Actor Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant, standing next to an electric fence in a scene from the film ‘Jurassic Park’, 1993. (Photo by Murray Close/Getty Images)
Sam Neill and Guyon Espiner sit down for an interview as part of 30 with Guyon Espiner, on location at Two Paddocks in Central Otago.