While driving through a rainstorm in Sydney, Australia, this car witnessed a lightning splice a tree in half and land on the ...

Lightning triggers 75,000 forest fires in the US each year and can split entire trees down the middle in a split second. So it’s frightening to imagine what it does inside a human body.

Lightning struck the tree during a storm on 21 September, causing the tree to split in half and fall on to bungalows in Sandhurst Road. People whose homes were damaged said they had been calling ...