French President Emmanuel Macron is calling an urgent crisis meeting as firefighters struggle to contain the wildfires prepare for scorching temperatures of over 40C this week

The violence of fires, fuelled by high temperatures and the long-term effects of climate change, has caught authorities off guard, with firefighters in Spain admitting the fires…

Madrid and Paris have called in EU help as flames whipped up by strong winds and boosted by drought tore through tinder-dry forests.