About 400 illegal migrants including Bangladesh nationals and Rohingya from Myanmar have been transported from Langkawi to Belantik Immigration Detention Depot, while 500 more are expected to be sent to the depot.

A couple who had eloped in the northern Indian state of Bihar have been lynched by villagers in what is suspected to be a case of honour killing, police said.

A pregnant woman who dig herself out of the rubble after the Nepal earthquake has given birth to a healthy boy.

Myanmar migrants on a boat stranded for a week in the Andaman Sea with no food or water say 10 people have died, while some are resorting to drinking urine.

Some 400 illegal immigrants on a vessel were told to jump into chest-deep water and wade to shores of Langkawi in Malaysia if they did not want to be shot dead.

The death toll rises to 72 in a fire that guts a rubber slipper factory in the Philippine capital of Manila.

At least 72 people are now known to have died in a fire at a rubber shoe factory in a suburb of the Philippine capital Manila, officials say.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia should end pushbacks of boats with Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants, Human Rights Watch says.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with more than 800 migrants.

Rescue workers are trying to reach at least 15 miners trapped underground in a gold mine in northwestern Colombia after it suddenly flooded, a government emergency response unit say.

Fourteen people dies in an attack on a Kabul hotel packed with foreigners awaiting a concert, according to Afghan officials.

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza's attempt to return home to tackle a coup has failed and he has returned to Tanzania where he was attending a summit.

Facebook to introduce 'Instant Articles', which will offer organisations chance to create interactive content that is simpler,faster to read on Facebook via mobile device.

Rescuers yesterday combed through the mangled wreckage of a derailed train in Philadelphia after an accident that left at least six dead,

Aid agencies began delivering help to desperate civilians yesterday as a temporary ceasefire took hold in Yemen after nearly seven weeks of Saudi-led air strikes against Iran-backed rebels.

At least 28 people were killed and dozens more feared dead after a fire tore through a factory producing flip-flops in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, the city's fire marshal said.

The second-in-command of Islamic State (ISIS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defence said yesterday.

Two heavily armed Taliban gunmen stormed a mosque in southern Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, killing at least six people in a fight with security forces that lasted several hours and ended with their deaths.

The European Union clashed with Britain yesterday as it launched a new plan to save thousands of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean that includes controversial resettlement quotas for refugees.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had his defence minister executed with anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during a formal military rally, South Korean intelligence said yesterrday, hinting at possible instability in the Pyongyang leadership.