A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma has capsized, drowning at least five people, as the UN said the crisis has pushed more than 125,000 refugees into Bangladesh.

About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Burma and crossed into Bangladesh, with hundreds stranded in no man's land at the border, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

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A Malaysia Airlines flight from London to Kuala Lumpur experienced severe turbulence today, causing minor injuries to some passengers and crew, the airline said.

Drawn by the sunshine, huge crowds descended on Killarney for its St Patrick’s Day parade where the green of the traffic lights had been turned into shamrocks and the buildings had been turned green overnight.

Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, across the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said.

India has announced two more successes in its quest to send humans into space, launching the country’s largest rocket and testing the re-entry of a crew module.

When it comes to a single jewel, without doubt the most famous diamond on earth is what the Court of Louis XIV dubbed Le Bijou de Roi, or ’The King’s Jewel’, which was more blandly expressed by the British in the 1830s, as the Hope Diamond.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

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Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Indian authorities were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and headed toward the country’s east coast.

A tiger snatched a woman and disappeared into the surrounding mangrove forest in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, an official said today.

Malaysian investigators are becoming increasingly certain that the missing plane turned back across the country after losing communications, and that someone with aviation skills was responsible for the unexplained change in course.

A boat carrying local tourists capsized today in India’s Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal, killing 21 people.

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Mass evacuations have spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials have said.

An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage.

The strongest cyclone to threaten India in more than a decade is approaching its east coast as authorities drove tens of thousands of villagers from their coastal homes to government shelters inland.

Cyclone Mahasan has weakened into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and sparing Burma almost entirely.

The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh today, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds and forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.

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Fifty people are missing after an overcrowded boat capsized off the Bangladesh coast.

A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

Thousands of people have moved to higher ground and schools and colleges have closed as a cyclone roared in the Bay of Bengal toward coastal areas, authorities in southern India have said.

Dozens of fishermen were missing today after rainstorms lashed coastal Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal and killed at least 24 people.

RIGHTSs campaigners and politicians condemned a video showing women from a protected and primitive tribe dancing for tourists in exchange for food on India’s far-flung Andaman Islands.

A ROCKET carrying an Indian communication satellite exploded just after liftoff on Saturday in the second launch failure for India’s space agency this year.

Authorities in southern India put military forces on alert today as a tropical storm approaches a coastal region already pummelled by several days of heavy rains that have left 22 people dead and displaced 30,000.

Rescue workers and naval divers have recovered 69 bodies three days after a boat crowded with Muslim pilgrims capsized near the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, an official said today.

Powerful landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 47 people including three soldiers today in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Powerful landslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 24 people and left seven army soldiers missing in south-eastern Bangladesh today.

A southern Indian state has declared a cyclone alert today and evacuated thousands of people as the region braces for its worst storm in 14 years.

A DISPUTED island claimed by both India and Bangladesh has disappeared due to rising sea levels in the Bay of Bengal, a leading scientist said yesterday.

Medical teams rushed today to flood-devastated southern India where five days of torrential rain have left at least 205 people dead and 750,000 displaced, authorities said.

The death toll from a storm that swept past the east coast of India and slammed into neighbouring Bangladesh rose to nearly 90 today.

SCIENTISTS have found the clearest evidence yet that warming oceans are whipping up more powerful cyclone storms, such as Hurricane Gustav.

India's annual monsoon rains have swept across the country about two weeks early - causing floods that have killed at least 23 people.

The UN pleaded with Burma’s secretive government today to open its doors to foreign experts who could help up to two million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.

A massive international aid effort for devastated Burma was being kept on hold by the country’s secretive ruling military toda

India warned Burma it was going to be hit by cyclone Nargis two days before it made landfall there, an official said today.

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.

OFF to Bali the week after next? Me neither. Truth is, I wasn’t invited. Nor do I suspect were very many other people invited who don’t subscribe to the climate change “consensus”. (How can you have a consensus that people don’t go along with?)