The UN General Assembly is to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the Pakistan flooding crisis.

THOSE unfortunate enough to have their homes, farms or business caught up in our occasional but terribly damaging floods will have some very small idea of the great challenges facing the people of Pakistan.

Burma's state media said last weekend's cyclone killed some 10,000 people in one town alone, raising fears of a big rise in the overall death toll today, as the international community prepared to rush aid to the nation.

NORTH Korea is in desperate need of medical aid to treat victims of its huge train blast, UN officials warned yesterday.