Waterbombing is underway to try and stop a fire at Stanford Merthyr near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley. Some residents have self evacuated.
Also tonight, two dead and 13 injured as an out of control bushfire sweeps through South Australia.
Russia is sending its advanced air defence cruiser within striking range of Syria following the shooting down of one of its jets.
And a British scientist has won the gruelling Antarctic Ice Marathon in temperatures as low as minus twenty degrees celcius.
