Firefighters are strategically positioning resources and using new methods to keep small blazes from overwhelming emergency responders.

A city known for extraordinary architecture is coming to terms with intensifying storms, a rising sea and streets that flood with distressing regularity.

A lack of global solidarity including the hoarding of vaccines by richer nations as well as slow vaccination rate has contributed to Indonesia becoming the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, according to the UN's top official in the country. Read the full story, 'Lack of global . . .