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Hundreds of students have demanded justice after an air force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, killing at least 31 people, most of whom were children. At a protest near the crash site on Tuesday, the students called for accountability, just…
At least 19 people have died after a Bangladesh air force plane crashed into a school campus in Dhaka. Officials said more than 50 others, including children, were taken to hospital, mostly with burns. The plane crashed into Milestone school and colleg…
A tourist boat capsized during a thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 30 people and leaving several missing. The Wonder Sea boat was carrying about 50 people on a sightseeing the tour of Ha Long Bay, state media reported. A s…
An escaped pet lion chased, attacked and injured a woman and two children in Pakistan’s second biggest city, Lahore, police said. CCTV footage shows a lion leaping over a boundary wall into a street and chasing a woman. The lio…
The Dalai Lama has said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation after he previously suggested he might be the last person to hold the role. In a video broadcast before his 90th birthday …
Seoul residents are grappling with an invasion of ‘lovebugs’ that have swarmed hiking trails and urban areas across the South Korean capital. Viral footage shared on social media shows Gyeyangsan mountain in Incheon, west of Seoul, with hiking trails …
At least nine people died when floodwaters swept away children in a river in northern Pakistan and relatives who had jumped into the water to try to save them, officials have said. The family was having a picnic breakfast by the Swat River and the chil…
A bear entered the runway area of Yamagata airport on Thursday, forcing a temporary shutdown and flight cancellations. The animal was found at the site at about 7am local time, then disappeared before returning, leading to the runway’s closure from 11….
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash, helped carry his brother’s flower-heaped coffin to a crematorium in the western Indian coastal town of Diu, days after they plummeted into the ground shortly after takeoff. All 241 other …
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Tuesday, sending towering columns of hot ash into the air and spewing an ash cloud 10km high, the country’s volcanology agency said. Indonesian officials raised volcano alerts to their hi…
The British survivor of the Air India plane crash has described the horror of watching people ‘dying in front of my eyes’. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said he thought he was dead when the plane crashed into a building, before realising he was alive and escap…
Footage recorded near the site of the crash showed people helping a man walking toward an ambulance. The survivor is believed to be Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British-Indian man from London. ‘When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. …
CCTV footage captured the moment an Air India passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday. More than 240 people were believed to be onboard the London Gatwick-bound aircraft. Ahmedabad police said there was at least o…
Social media footage shows the moment Air India flight 171 plane crashed. The plane was headed for Gatwick, south of London, Air India said, while police said it crashed in a residential area near the airport. The footage shows the plane crashing and e…
An Air India passenger plane bound for Gatwick airport with more than 240 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff from the north-western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The plane came down in the residential area of Meghani Nagar five minutes after tak…