Cricket Australia has confirmed the squad for "Bushfire Cricket Bash", the team includes three overseas players in the playing capacity. The overseas players are Yuvraj Singh, Brian Lara and Wasim Akram.

'Bushfire Cricket Bash' to feature Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Lara at Sydney stadium

Bushfires eased near Australia's capital, Canberra, on Monday, as temperatures dipped, but officials warned heavy smoke was set to blow into the city with a shift in the wind.

Bushfire smoke blows into Australia's capital as fire threat eases

Australia's capital, Canberra, was on high alert on Sunday as bushfires burned nearby, while smoke and dust engulfed large parts of the country's east, prompting warnings from health authorities.

Excess smoke and dust trigger health warnings from Australian government; Canberra on fire alert

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he wants greater federal powers during natural disasters, as authorities warned bushfires ravaging the country for months were sweeping through a national park near the capital.

Australian PM seeks greater federal powers to protect the nation from threatening bushfires

Canadian C-130 Hercules air tanker has crashed while exterminating the Australian Bushfires in the Alpine region on Thursday. Authorities confirmed the death of three crew members in the plane crash.

Canadian air tanker crashes while battling Australian bushfires; kills 3 US citizens

Under a cloth tent on South Australia's Kangaroo Island, vet Lauren Eyre scraps burnt skin off a koala's paws on Sunday (January 19) as bushfires on the island continue to see the iconic marsupials arrive into the triage unit.

Australia's koalas treated for burns on Kangaroo island

Sitting on the fringe of blackened forests, an Australian town Kangaroo Valley narrowly escaped the inferno that swollen its surrounding areas early this month. But for restaurant owner, Monique Moul, surviving the deadly bushfires is the beginning of another trouble as she struggles to salvage the business.

Businesses in Australian town hopes receded bushfires will draw tourists back

Residents rejoiced in parts of Australia's east coast due to heavy rains on Thursday, bringing relief to drought-hit areas.

Australians rejoice as showers of rain on bushfire-ravaged east coast bring relief

The year's first Grand Slam started with a sheet of haze and smoke that covered Melbourne due to the Australian bushfires. Also read: Tennis: Federer, Williams lead way to raise funds for workers in Australia bushfires Australia Open qualifying matches were delayed due to Hazardous Air conditions.

Australian Open: Hazardous air condition delays matches, restarts amid haze

The smoke from the Australian bushfires will take a 'full circuit' and return to the nation from the west, NASA said on its website. The smoke has spread into the lower stratosphere and has reached 17.

Australian bushfire smoke will take a 'full circuit' and return to the nation: NASA

The whole tennis world is coming together to help the relief workers in Australia. After Serena Williams, incredible gesture towards Australian Bushfire after winning the Auckland Open, where she donated the entire winning amount (US$43,000) to the relief efforts seems to have struck a chord.

Tennis: Federer, Williams lead way to raise funds for workers in Australia bushfires

Australia is going through one of it's worst bushfires in decades, the human death toll reached to 24 now, and it is said that a staggering number of 500 million animals have died due to these fires.

Bushfire Cricket Bash: Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne to come out of retirement to raise funds

Bushfires in Australia are having a devastating impact on wildlife, with welfare groups racing to rescue as many wild animals as possible. But not all can be saved.

Not all animals injured in bushfires can be saved: Australian volunteers

In pics: Nature's wrath — Inferno in Australia

Australian firefighters used a break from searing temperatures on Tuesday to strengthen containment lines around huge wildfires as the financial and environmental costs of the crisis mounted.

Australia strengthens bushfire defences as economic, environmental costs mount

Australian farmer, Anthony Thomas, sat on his quad bike on Wednesday (January 8) as he looked at his farm, wiped out by the catastrophic bushfires which swept through Kiah in New South Wales, taking everything in its path when it blazed through four days ago.

'It just meant so much to me': Australian farmer loses entire deer farm to raging bushfire

Just when John Aish and his partner Jenny Shea thought they had beaten the inferno ravaging their two properties in Australia's southeast on New Year's Eve, a roaring fireball came through forcing them to flee.

'Everything's just gone, we’ve got nothing': Australian bushfire victim

Fire threats eased in parts of southeastern Australia on Sunday after a horror day of blazes that killed one man and injured four firefighters, but authorities warned several fires were still burning at emergency levels and hot weather was set to return.

Australian firefighters get brief reprieve as death toll rises

In the wake devastating bushfires in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has deferred his visit to India which was likely to take place this month. PM Morrison was also supposed to visit Japan this month, the trip has been postponed.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison defers trip to India, Japan as bushfire crisis looms 

The fierce wildfires raging across Australia have estimated to put up a death toll at nearly half a billion animals in one state alone along with the surplus damage that is increasing day by day.

Australia Bushfires: Destroyed wildlife could take decades to recover

Residents and tourists along the New South Wales south coast started evacuations on Thursday (January 2) with authorities declaring a "tourist leave zone" for hundred's of kilometres of the coast.

Thousands evacuate New South Wales south coast ahead of bushfire threat

A third person was confirmed dead on Wednesday in devastating bushfires that engulfed Australia's southeast coast this week and a fourth was missing and feared dead, as navy ships rushed to provide supplies and assist with evacuations.

Death toll in Australia reaches fifteen as bushfires rage

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lashed out at "reckless and job-destroying" calls to introduce cuts in coal industry as the country struggles with wildfires.

Australian PM Scott Morrison hits out at 'reckless' calls to cut coal industry

Ring of fire: Australian state declares emergency as wildfires approach Sydney

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