Two people have been killed and at least 15 injured in a fire at a hospital in the western German city of Bochum and efforts to douse the flames are ongoing, the fire department and hospital officials said on Friday.
A gunman opened fire in Houston on Monday just before daybreak, wounding nine people before police shot and killed him, police said.
Eight Russian firefighters were killed as they battled a blaze at a warehouse in eastern Moscow, authorities said on Friday, in the latest deadly fire to hit the capital.
A man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of arson, officials said, over a wildfire in Northern California that has destroyed more than 175 homes and businesses and forced hundreds of residents to flee.
Thousands of firefighters battled on Monday to contain a blaze tearing through suburban Los Angeles, destroying homes and a popular filming location and threatening actress Tippi Hedren's animal sanctuary.
More than 1,600 firefighters battled to contain a fast-spreading wildfire that has forced hundreds of evacuations in the drought-parched canyons north of Los Angeles, destroying 18 homes, killing at least one person and closing a highway.
Firefighters put out a fire that broke out at a 75-storey residential tower in Dubai on Wednesday, the fifth blaze in a skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates in recent years.
Cyprus finally brought a massive wildfire under control on Thursday after a five-day battle that saw two firefighters killed and five foreign governments send aircraft to help, a minister said.
Two firefighters were killed and a third was critically injured while tackling one of the largest forest fires in Cyprus in years.
At least 50 people including firefighters suffered minor injuries on Monday when a fire spread quickly through a commercial area in downtown Cairo, Egyptian officials said.
A fire ripped through a Russian Defence Ministry building in central Moscow on Sunday, sending plumes of smoke over the Russian capital as firefighters battled to extinguish the blaze.
