US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said North Korea should cease any consideration of actions that would "lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people".

A new United Nations report says Gaza could be “uninhabitable” in less than five years if current economic trends continue.

Nepali police and local volunteers have found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake. 

Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs.