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A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson over one of the fires burning in California.

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More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds have swept through California wine country, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending about 20,000 people fleeing for safety.

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Wind has wreaked havoc with wildfires threatening two crown jewels of the US National Park Service

Ash rained down across Los Angeles on Sunday from a destructive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history.

A wildfire in northern California has destroyed 10 homes and is threatening 800 more, authorities said, with a number of people forced to evacuate.

California wildfires are spreading quickly, threatening hundreds of homes and forcing evacuations at a summer camp where flames temporarily trapped children.

Elizabeth Thomas disappeared from her home near Columbia on March 13.

It was another time and another place. The proof? Yours truly in a position of responsibility, teaching a class in northern California, writes Michael Moynihan.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shakes ocean floor about 100 miles off the northern California coast.

One of Oklahoma's largest earthquakes on record has rattled other parts of the Midwest in the US, from Nebraska to North Texas.

Five days after an explosive wildfire in Southern California sent thousands fleeing for their lives, the authorities lifted all evacuation orders to allow residents to return home.

A wind-whipped wildfire has roared through a town in northern California still recovering from a devastating blaze nearly a year ago, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee.

Forty years ago, children rode their bikes unsupervised through suburban bedroom communities bracketed by Air Force bases east of Sacramento, California. Families rarely locked their doors at night.

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Three Irish women who left a balcony seconds before it collapsed, killing six college students, have sued the builders, owners and managers of the Berkeley building.

 

ENGLAND: Leicester City’s success on the pitch has been sending shockwaves through the city — with the celebrations of fans being picked up by equipment used to detect earthquakes.

The US Justice Department has sued Volkswagen (VW) for up to $90 billion (€84bn) for allegedly violating environmental laws.

ENGLAND: The moment strangers broke into an impromptu sing-along on a train has been captured on camera.

Sitka spruce is nowadays the species of choice for forestry plantations, both private and state-owned, on poorer land.

The European headquarters of the world’s biggest company employs 4,000 workers in Cork, and today Tim Cook announced the creation of a further 1,000 jobs at the site. Peter O’Dwyer got a rare look inside the global tech giants’ Cork plant earlier this year.

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Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in northern California, leaving at least one person dead and sending residents fleeing along roads where some buildings and vehicles were still in flames.

At least one person has died and 400 homes and businesses were destroyed after a wildfire devastated several Northern California towns.

More than one in two people have a ‘bucket list’ — places they want to see and things they want to do before they die, a survey reveals.

For a while there, it seemed like the NBA player of the year vote deciding the regular season’s Most Valuable Player would devolve into an alphabet soup of stats, highlights and what “valuable” really even means.

ENGLAND: A number of bingo hall toilets in the UK have tested positive for cocaine, according to a newspaper investigation, amid concerns that increasing numbers of older people are turning to the drug.

Lawyers for Robin Williams’ wife and children are set for a legal battle over the late comedian’s estate.

BRITAIN: Saturday evening is the most dangerous time to be at home, with four accidents in the UK every second, a study has found.

ENGLAND: One in five UK adults wish they could spend Valentine’s Day with their dream gadget instead of their loved one, according to research by the Gadget Show Live.

The head of self-driving cars for Google says he expects people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.

USA: A US police chief reported accidentally shooting his wife early on New Year’s Day.

Sitka spruce is the most common tree in Ireland. 

A dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon and thousands of power outages in Washington state has swept south through California, causing mudslides and evacuations.

Fifteen people protesting against a decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown have been arrested outside the Ferguson police department.