14 dead after boat with 70 migrants on board capsizes near Malaysia

A wooden boat crammed with migrant workers who were headed back to Indonesia capsized Thursday off Malaysia's western coast, leaving at least 14 people dead, a maritime official said.. The boat...

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Austria struggle to Identify truck victims

Veteran police investigators say they have never faced a task like identifying the 71 bodies unloaded from the back of a truck found abandoned along a highway last week. The victims, believed to...

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20 years on, Bougainville families haunted by missing

In the late 1980s, long-standing tensions over an Australia-run copper mine saw the region of Bougainville descend into a decade-long civil war for independence from Papua New Guinea. It was after...

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Himachal Pradesh: 18 dead, 12 injured as bus falls into gorge at Nathpa

Eighteen people were killed and twelve others injured on Tuesday when a bus fell 200 metres deep into a gorge at Nathpa on Hindustan Tibet National highway, 185km from Shimla. Fifteen persons died...

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