Barely a few days old, perched on a nest of twigs inside an incubator, a newborn Indonesian songbird - cherished for its melodious chirp - tweets weakly as a tiny metallic ring is attached to its leg.
Britain's finance minister and tech billionaire Bill Gates unveiled a plan on Monday to spend billions of dollars to eradicate "the world's deadliest killer" malaria.
India signed an intergovernmental agreement on Monday to buy 36 French-built Rafale fighter planes, but the leaders of both countries said there was still work to do to finalize financial terms after months of talks.
A large chunk of metal that could be from an aircraft washed ashore in Thailand, but Malaysian authorities on Sunday cautioned against speculation of a link to a Malaysia Airlines flight missing almost two years.
The eastern United States emerged wearily from a massive blizzard that dumped huge amounts of snow and killed at least 25 people, but Washington was still reeling, with government offices and schools remained closed on Monday.
Japan's cold snap continued to see snowfall across the country on Monday, particularly affecting coastal regions on the Sea of Japan, the weather agency said.
South Korea has been hit by the strongest cold wave in more than a decade, stranding tens of thousands of tourists in the southern resort island of Jeju and killing at least six people from hypothermia.
Students at a Pakistani university where Taliban militants killed 21 people last week protested on Monday over a lack of security as authorities reopened the campus in the country's volatile northwest.
A Swedish doctor who admitted to abducting a woman and locking her up in a homemade bunker had planned the crime for years and may have tried to capture other victims, prosecutors said as the trial started on Monday.
Former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was ordered on Monday to appear in court to answer the charge of sedition, a move her supporters said was politically motivated.
Headmaster Naveed Gul walked past the armed guard at the gate into his office. As primary school pupils studied their morning lessons outside, he reached beneath his warm woolly sweater, and pulled out a gun.
Web designer Maria Zurbano kisses her 3-year-old daughter goodbye and sets out in the pre-dawn darkness for a torturous commute through the Philippine capital.
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