Uttarakhand: Rescuers stepped up efforts to find around 20 people still missing 48 hours after an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas claimed at least nine lives including a record-breaking woman climber. A group of 41 climbing trainees and instructors were caught in Tuesday's massive snowslide near
Sanaa: In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Umm Zakaria al-Sharaabi prepares for a daily challenge - creating a meal out of virtually nothing to feed the 18 people in her extended family. "Today we have yet to make lunch," she
Birmingham: Around 73000 women affected by recent floods in Pakistan are expected to deliver babies in October. Around 650,000 expecting mothers face “high risk” to their health because of the ongoing post-floods situation, a joint report released by Aghosh UK and Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan has
Dollow, Somalia: A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time. Mohamed Ahmed Diriye is 60 years old, and he’s completing the grimmest
Sydney: Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost three months of 2022 still to go, Australia's largest city has recorded
Oslo: French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced. Ernaux, 82, was honoured "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements
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United Nations: The head of UN Peacekeeping Department, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, leaves Wednesday on a 10-day tour of four Asian countries, including Pakistan, a UN spokesman said. “The purpose of Mr Lacroix’s visit is to thank the countries for their contributions and support to UN peacekeeping, as
Bangkok: A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead 34 people including children before killing himself and his family, police said. The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened
Seoul: North Korea fired two ballistic missiles Thursday as it claimed its recent blitz of sanctions-busting tests were necessary countermeasures against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. As the United Nations Security Council met to discuss Pyongyang's Tuesday launch of an intermediate-range