Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, China’s Xinhua News Agency has said.

The gardeners used by organised gangs to tend to cannabis crops are often little more than “slaves” who usually have to live in squalid conditions.

Vietnam is evacuating more than 180,000 people from coastal areas in the path of Typhoon Nari.

In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing “Too hot! Too hot!” as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing “Too hot! Too hot!” as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

Ireland's 69 overseas embassies cost a total €76m to run last year, it has been revealed.

A strong earthquake that toppled homes in north eastern Burma has killed more than 40 people, and there were fears today the toll would mount as conditions in more remote areas became known.

AS OUR world becomes more urbanised, more industrialised and ever more populated it is inevitable that we will have regular and worrying food scares.

FLOOD water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam yesterday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.

Sex offender Gary Glitter was in hiding today after finally arriving back in Britain and being ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

Disgraced singer Gary Glitter tonight left Bangkok and is on a flight bound for London, the British Foreign Office said.

Paedophile rock star Gary Glitter was in limbo today after he failed to board a second flight to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.

Shamed rock star Gary Glitter was in limbo today after refusing to board a flight to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.

Fallen pop star Gary Glitter will be released from a Vietnamese prison later this month after serving almost three years for child sex offences.

A Vietnamese unaccompanied minor brought to Ireland by Chinese human traffickers for illegal labour, has been released into the care of the HSE.

A Vietnamese unaccompanied minor was brought to Ireland by Chinese human traffickers for illegal labour, the Children’s Court heard today.

A Vietnamese boy suspected of having been brought to Ireland by human traffickers is to remain in custody pending a continued Garda probe into his background.

Thousands of people were evacuated from buildings today as an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck western China.

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter is set to return to Britain and make a television comeback after release from a Vietnamese jail, his lawyer announced on Saturday.

Former British rocker Gary Glitter is expected to go on trial in southern Vietnam late next month, accused of committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11, officials said today.

A “FRIGHTENING” report has cast fresh doubts over the drug used to combat bird flu, after two people died after failing to respond to the treatment.

Shamed rocker Gary Glitter has smashed up his computer in a desperate bid to hide explicit images of child abuse, according to police in Vietnam.

THE dismissal of a case in the United States which accused chemical companies of war crimes by supplying the US Army with Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, triggered angry protests from Vietnamese victims yesterday.

THE dismissal of a case in the United States which accused chemical companies of war crimes by supplying the US Army with Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, triggered angry protests from Vietnamese victims yesterday.

People infected with Asia’s bird flu get sick about three days after exposure to the virus, suffering fevers and coughing, the World Health Organisation has found, in the first clinical data of patients with the current strain.