Tom Hanks says he has the “blahs” but no fever as he and his wife Rita Wilson remain in isolation after contracting the coronavirus.

Tom Hanks, who is currently in Australia, announced the news via Instagram.

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are isolated in stable condition in an Australian hospital Thursday after contracting the new coronavirus, the actor and Australian officials said.

Devastated after again being targeted at school for his dwarfism, a sobbing Quaden Bayles repeatedly told his mother that he wanted to die. The 9-year-old Australian’s deep distress went viral on social media after his mother, Yarraka Bayles, posted a six-minute video clip. “This is what bullying is doing and I want people to know how much this is...

General Motors says it’s pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments, dismaying officials concerned over job losses

Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year.

A former deputy commissioner of New South Wales fire and rescue services sounded the alarm long before wildfires killed 34 Australians, decimated the country’s unique wildlife and created a smoke cloud so vast it was visible from space, NBC News reports.

An Oceanside teen learned to sew to help the orphaned animals devastated by the wildfires in Australia.

Twenty Angeles National Forest firefighters returned to Los Angeles Wednesday after spending nearly a month battling the raging wildfires in Australia. The firefighters were deployed on Jan. 6 to assist the Victoria Rural Fire Service, according to the U.S. Forest Service. All of us on the forest, and I know their families, are proud of the hard work our dedicated…

Lawmakers have commemorated wildfire victims and praised the heroism of firefighters in Australia’s Parliament as hundreds of protesters rallied outside demanding more policy action on climate change

The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis have been retrieved

The San Diego Zoo is tapping into the resilient and hopeful spirit from Down Under to host a weekend of activities to raise funds and awareness for relief efforts in the region.

The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer

Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said.

Three Americans died Thursday when their aerial water tanker crashed as they were fighting fires in southeastern Australia.

San Diego Zoo researchers stationed in Australia to provide relief for koalas devastated by months of bushfires have added an adorable team member to their search team.

Dust storms, hail and flash floods have battered beleaguered Australian cities in recent days, extreme weather that has diminished the threat from scores of wildfires that continue to blaze across the country’s southeast.

Australia’s forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent. Heat waves and drought have fueled bigger and more frequent fires in parts of Australia, so far this season torching some 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers), an area about...

Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.

Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national parks — killing by one estimate more than a billion wild animals. Scientists fear some of the island continent’s unique and colorful species may not recover. For others, they are trying to throw lifelines....

Where flames have subsided, biologists are starting to...