Rescuers raced on Monday to help tens of thousands of people in Myanmar who were stranded by rooftop-high floods, as the UN warned that swollen rivers threaten more areas and large swathes of Asia that have been hit by deadly monsoon rains.
About 1,000 Buddhists from several countries are gathering in Chiang Mai to attend the Fifth World Youth Buddhist Symposium.
Malaysian aviation experts planned to meet their French counterparts and judges on Monday to coordinate the investigation into missing Flight MH370, days after the discovery of a washed-up plane part offered fresh hope of solving the mystery.
France and Britain vowed on Sunday that a cross-Channel migrant crisis was their "top priority" in a united front that belied simmering anger.
US President Barack Obama will announce on Monday the final version of his plan to tackle greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, kicking off what is expected to be a tumultuous legal battle between federal environmental regulators and coal industry supporters.
The Nigerian army has freed 178 people being held hostage by Boko Haram, including more than 100 children, it announced late on Sunday following a series of deadly attacks by the jihadists in the country's northeast.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia unexpectedly left the French Riviera on Sunday, local officials said, adding that a beach that had been controversially closed for the royal's holiday will now reopen to the public.
Traveling at speeds of up to 386 kilometers per hour, 164 skydivers flying head-down connected with each other to form the largest ever vertical skydiving formation on Friday over central Illinois, smashing the previous record.
On one of London's most exclusive streets, drivers of two expensive cars are getting ready to leave their parking spots.
At the stroke of midnight on Friday, tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined India-Bangladesh border will finally get to choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land to settle the demarcation line dividing them.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United Kingdom said family members of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were killed in a private jet crash in southern England.
Rescuers were searching on Sunday for about 20 villagers feared killed in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in a remote region of northeastern India.
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