Firefighters battling wildfires in Australia are braced for conditions to get worse in the coming days, with high temperatures and strong winds expected to intensify the danger.

Australians Michael Wright, Bradley Hughes, Ben Bunny and Adam Bland today earned places in the British Open championship at Hoylake in July.

A Sydney businessman who faked his own death wanted to collect a £1.5m (€2.2m) life insurance policy in a scam that also involved his wife and daughter, police told a court today.