Police say a man in northern Thailand stormed in to a neighbour’s home, hacked five children to death and inflicted multiple stab wounds on a pregnant woman who was looking after them.

CELEBRITY SHEEP ENGLAND: A sheep is to turn on the Christmas lights of a Derbyshire town.

ARISTOTLE, who was born in 384BC, considered elephants superior to all other animals in ‘wit and mind’. Many wildlife rangers, zookeepers, and mahouts living with working elephants, would agree.

Shane Lowry’s goal to end the year inside the world’s top 50 and earn a Masters invitation has been derailed after the reigning Portugal Masters champion had to be rushed to a local hospital in Dubai.

IN Cambodia, we met our son and his girlfriend, fresh from their two-day voyage on a slow boat down the Mekong from north Thailand into Laos, and cheerful despite their 20-hour bus journey to meet us at Siem Reap.

BANGERS at daybreak: it was Chinese New Year in Bangkok.

The nationwide death toll from flooding in Thailand has climbed past 500, as the polluted black water continues its march through parts of the capital.

Floodwaters are moving closer to the heart of Thailand's capital, with officials warning that no major barriers are standing in the way to prevent the water from reaching central Bangkok.

ONE week ago today, Emma MacBride was trekking in northern Thailand on her dream honeymoon.

Efforts to block floodwaters from entering Bangkok are failing, Thailand’s prime minister said today.

An elephant is being treated by vets after it was injured by a land mine near the border between Thailand and Burma.

Angelina Jolie has issued an emotive plea to the Thai government urging officials to free thousands of Burmese refugees who have been held in camps for up to 20 years.

ANGELINA JOLIE has called on Thailand’s government to give more freedom to tens of thousands of Burmese refugees it has kept locked inside camps for up to 20 years.

After panda porn failed to spark love, Thai zoo authorities today turned to artificial insemination in the hope of impregnating their lone female giant panda.

CHUANG CHUANG the panda has reacted with indifference after spending his days in front of a television watching panda porn.

Bangkok's Mayor Apirak Kosayothin ordered the cancellation of the two major public New Year's Eve countdown celebrations and other smaller ones following six or more bomb blasts in the city today.

Search dogs led rescuers to three bodies buried under mud and two people who had passed out on a hill, starving, days after torrential rains triggered flash floods in northern Thailand, officials said today.

More than 100 people were feared dead today as searchers recovered corpses from a sea of mud spawned by flash floods in northern Thailand, local officials said.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Burma’s Shan State was felt in several provinces of northern Thailand, the Thai meteorology department said today.

A television debate on a controversial plan to ship wildlife from Kenya to a safari park in northern Thailand ended in blows when proponents attacked animal welfare activists.

Important guests at the grand opening of a safari zoo in northern Thailand will not only get to see exotic animals, they’ll get to taste them.

A SUSPECTED serial killer calmly told reporters that he strangled four prostitutes in northern Thailand, following his arrest yesterday after a nationwide manhunt.

Each year at this time some disaster seems to mar the Christmas and New Year festivities.

More than 9,300 people across Asia were killed today after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into coastlines in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.

More than 2,000 of people have been killed today as one of the most-powerful earthquakes in years triggered massive tidal waves slammed into coastlines across Asia.

The Thai government plans to buy about five million duck eggs from farmers and destroy them in a bid to thwart the spread of bird flu, which has devastated poultry stocks and killed 11 people in Thailand this year.

A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in northern Thailand, raising the country’s death toll from the virus to 11, a Health Ministry official said today.

Health experts have warned that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu appears to be entrenched in parts of Southeast Asia after a teenager in a Malaysian village hit by the virus was hospitalised with flu symptoms.

people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day.

Seven people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day, state media reported.

At least 16 people, including three children, have been killed by a flash flood that swept through a refugee camp in northern Thailand.

A flash flood has swept through a camp for Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand and left 28 people either dead or missing.

VETS in Thailand have put to death an elephant that went blind and suffered years of painful side-effects after being hooked on drugs by its owner.

Vets in Thailand have put to death an elephant that went blind and suffered years of painful side-effects after being hooked on drugs by its owner.

Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of 74 flash-flood victims in northern Thailand.

A flash flood today swept away more than 800 houses in northern Thailand, killing at least 12 people and leaving 4,000 others homeless, officials said.