Warning signs were visible ahead of Nepal-China floods, report says
Areas of Nepal are still out of the reach of rescue teams, according to the UN, while the death toll from the disaster now exceeds 1,000. Follow for l…
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Floodwater ‘like liquid cement’ as death toll in Nepal climbs
Rescue crews and foreign specialists are also racing to find scores of workers feared trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal. Follow for live upda…
Race against time to find workers missing in Nepal’s hydropower tunnels. Here’s what we know
Rescue crews and foreign specialists are racing to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud bur…
Landslides and floods have wreaked havoc in Nepal and China. Follow the river down the path of destruction.
Massive landslides and catastrophic flash floods have wreaked havoc at the Nepal-China border, destroying houses, wiping out bridges and killing hundr…
Rescuers search for missing workers as death toll rises from devastating China-Nepal floods
Survivors have returned to find little left of their communities as the death toll rises from last week’s catastrophic flooding at the China-Nepal b…
Death toll rises and thousands still missing in Nepal and China after catastrophic floods
Around 3,000 people are still missing after this week’s catastrophic flash flooding on the Nepal-China border. Follow live updates.
8 officials suspended after probe into Pakistan hospital fire that killed 14 newborns
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday ordered the suspension of eight officials and directed that criminal proceedings be initiated agai…
Canada poaches dozens of US academics as Trump administration tightens university funding
Forty-eight academics come from institutions in the US, including Harvard, Cornell, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from a range if…
Survivors say Nepal-China flooding hit ‘like a tsunami’ as rescuers fear fresh deluge
Dozens of Americans and other foreign nationals are among at least 1,300 people unaccounted for. Follow for live updates.
Man, 86, reunited with backpack 60 years after abandoning it during hiking accident
An 86-year-old Austrian man has been reunited with climbing equipment he was forced to abandon in a glacier crevasse more than six decades ago, after …
