A 15-year-old girl who disappeared from a jungle resort in Malaysia died of intestinal rupture as a result of starvation and stress, local police have said.

Update: The aunt of missing teenager Nóra Quoirin has revealed how the teen's parents are devastated at her disappearance in Malaysia.

Malaysian officials have said they "know better" and insist a missing Irish girl has not been abducted from her room, in direct conflict with the belief of her frantic family who insist she would not have wandered off from the nature resort.

The family of an Irish teenager missing in Malaysia is at odds with police there as to whether her disappearance is a crime.

A church in southern Malaysia was vandalised, apparently the latest in a string of attacks on Christian houses of worship in the Muslim-majority nation, police said today.