Firefighters contained eight new bushfires in Australia’s Victoria state yesterday, a day of extreme fire danger three weeks after 210 people were killed in the southern state in the nation’s worst blazes.

A man charged with deliberately starting one of the wildfires that killed a total of more than 180 people in Australia had to be taken into protective custody to guard him from angry victims today.

IN what could have been a scene taken straight from the TV series Skippy, a half-blind kangaroo hopped to its owner’s rescue by barking like a dog.