Residents of Yellowknife flee wildfires in Canada's Northwest Territories

Thousands of people are fleeing a wildfire on the outskirts of Yellowknife, one of the largest cities in Canada's Northwest Territories, which declared a state of emergency late on Tuesday as it battles nearly 240 wildfires.

Maui's emergency management chief has quit a day after defending his agency's failure to activate its alarm system in last week's fatal wildfire in the US state of Hawaii - we hear from one resident.

More than 100 people have been arrested in Pakistan after churches were burned - we go live there to get the latest.