Wildfires in Spain and France have forced thousands into lockdown, with hundreds more evacuated, as a heatwave drove temperatures to record levels across Europe. Spanish authorities have ordered more than 18,000 people to remain indoors and dozens more were evacuated as wildfires raged across Catalonia.

A fire that started in a vehicle on the road to the airport had torn across 350 hectares by the afternoon. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Smoke from the fire in the hills north of Marseille was visible from the city's Vieux-Port A rapidly spreading wildfire has reached the outer edge of Marseille, France's second largest city. Earlier,