Are we going to die, Granddad? It hardly bears imagining what torture must have gone through the mind of Nick Morris in the brief instant between life and death after a missile tore through Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.

A WILDFIRE that tore across the outskirts of an Australian city destroyed at least 41 homes and damaged another 19.

A wildfire that tore across the outskirts of an Australian city destroyed at least 41 homes and damaged another 19.

Wildfires tore across the outskirts of an Australian city today, destroying at least 35 homes and injuring a firefighter, authorities said.