Minister Dara Calleary said he understood people’s ‘frustration’ and that authorities were ‘working as hard as possible’.

Simon Vickers, 50, gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife into his daughter Scarlett’s chest.

More rain has fallen on parts of Southern California after causing mudflows over the weekend – helping firefighters, but boosting the risk of toxic ash run-off in areas scorched by Los Angeles-area ...