A blazing inferno started by an oil tanker crash has killed nine people and destroyed 53 vehicles in Nigeria.

The accident happened on a motorway that connects Lagos and the city of Ibadan.

Spokesman for the Federal Road Safety Commission, Bisi Kazeem, said he cause of the accident was brake failure and that the tanker, five buses, two trucks, a tricycle and 45 cars were burnt out.

A bushfire raged on for its fourth day on Wednesday to the east of Manchester in what some locals are calling the biggest fire in living memory.

The fire has been spread largely due to the dryness of the climate in England as Britons sweat through their one of their hottest summers on record.

More than 100 firefighters have been at work to contain the blaze, more than a dozen homes and over 800 hectares of land has been destroyed.

There’s been no consensus on what sparked the blaze.

The Western Australia Government's plan to sell property and land data agency Landgate is expected to generate at least $650 million in revenue.

If the sale proceeds, WA will be following in the footsteps of New South Wales and South Australia, and Victoria is preparing to do the same.

Under the terms of the sale, price increases will be capped at the consumer price index plus one percentage point, which means Landgate’s new owner, Advara, will be permitted to lift prices by a maximum of 2.5 per cent next financial year.

Mental Health Minister Martin Foley says that Victoria’s first safe injecting room will be opening in Melbourne within days.

The opening of the room marks the beginning of a two-year trial in inner Melbourne, in response to an increase in drug-related deaths in North Richmond.

The safe injecting room trial was approved by state parliament, local councils and medical experts, and will allow drug users to inject any drug with supervision of medical practitioners.

Queensland Rail has announced Brisbane’s train timetable will not go on holidays for the first time in 18 months.

Following the opening of the Redcliffe Peninsula Line in October 2016, hundreds of services were cancelled due to a shortage of available train drivers.

However, for the first time since the driver supply issue affected services a year and a half ago, services will continue as normal during the upcoming June-July school holidays.

Hairstylist and philanthropist, Jak Vaessen, who has previously raised more than $1 million dollars for local charities, was left disgusted, after a 24 hour sleep out in Brisbane’s CBD.

Vaessen said the sleep out was in response to the upcoming St Vinnies Sleepout.

Instead of sleeping with city leaders and other activists at the Brisbane Powerhouse for a night, Vaessen slept in the CBD and was surprised when only one person offered to help him.

The president of South Sudan and his former vice president signed a peace deal Wednesday in a bid to end their country's protracted civil war.

A mystery object called Oumuamua that passed through our solar system has been identified as a comet after much debate and investigation from astronomers.