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At least 17 girls have been killed by a fire which swept through their school dormitory in northern Thailand. The fire broke out on Sunday evening when many of the girls, aged between five and 13, were asleep, said police. One official told AFP that 38 students had been in the dorm at Pithakkiart Witthaya school in Chiang Rai, which ...

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has probably been killed in a US air strike, US officials say. He and another male combatant were targeted as they rode in a vehicle in a remote area of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, the officials said. The Pentagon has confirmed it targeted Mansour in strikes but said they were still assessing ...

The European Union could see its first far-right president if Norbert Hofer wins the second, run-off round of the Austrian election. The Freedom Party candidate faces an independent, Alexander Van der Bellen, who has the backing of the Greens. Mr Hofer topped the first vote but fell well short of an outright majority. For the first time since World War ...

The Egyptian military has released images of items found during the search in the Mediterranean Sea for missing Egypt Air flight MS804. They include life vests, parts of seats and objects clearly marked EgyptAir. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard when it vanished from radar early on Thursday. Investigators have confirmed smoke ...

President Barack Obama has criticised the US Congress for failing to back his request for a $1.9bn (£1.25bn) fund to combat the spreading Zika virus. He warned that the country could face “bigger problems” in the future. His comments come as the latest figures showed that there were nearly 300 pregnant women in the US who had tested positive for ...

There were smoke alerts inside the cabin of the EgyptAir passenger plane before it crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, reports say. Smoke was detected in the toilet and the aircraft’s electrics, just minutes before the signal was lost, according to data published on air industry website the Aviation Herald. However, there has been no official confirmation of the data. ...

A massive search is continuing for a second day for an EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean. Greek, Egyptian, French and UK military units are taking part in the operation near Greece’s Karpathos island. Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished early on Thursday. Greece said radar showed the ...

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo made two sharp turns before plunging into the Mediterranean Sea, Greece’s defence minister says. Panos Kammenos said the Airbus A320 had “turned 90 degrees left and then a 360-degree turn to the right”. It then dropped more than 25,000ft (7,620m) before disappearing from radar, he added. Egypt’s civil aviation minister has said the ...

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the Egyptian airline says. It says there are 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000ft (11,300m) when it went missing over the eastern Mediterranean. An official said the plane lost contact with radar at 02:45 Cairo ...

One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found in Nigeria, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago. Activists told the BBC that Amina Ali Nkeki was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the huge Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction ...