The number of patients infected in China with new coronavirus has reached 20,438, as Hong Kong reported its first death from the disease, authorities said on Tuesday.

A fire in a plastics factory on near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has killed at least 13 people with more victims gravely injured, officials said Thursday.

Deaths related to measles, mostly among small children, have more than tripled to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa ...

Divers were scouring for bodies in the wreckage of a scuba diving boat off California on Tuesday, after a fast-moving fire trapped dozens of people below deck ...

At least 76 people have died as a blistering heatwave swept through India's eastern state of Bihar on the weekend, officials said Monday.

At least 17 people were killed when a fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in the city of Surat in India's western state of Gujarat on Friday, police said.

A US air strike killed at least eight policeman in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a government official said on Friday, the latest casualties from a rise in air and ground operations against the Afghan Taliban.

A suicide car bomber rammed a bus carrying Indian police officers in Kashmir on Thursday, killing 30 of them in a major attack on security forces in the disputed region..

A car bomb killed two people and injured six in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, the military said.

Seven people were killed Saturday in a double car bomb attack claimed by the militant Shabaab group near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.

A German tourist has died during a storm in Italy, in the latest death after a week of terrible weather.

Eight people died as a severe cyclone damaged houses and toppled trees in coastal areas of India's eastern Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states on Thursday.