Incidents

The death toll in the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and high-end hotels in Colombo and other parts of Sri Lanka has soared to 290, with about 500 others injured, police said Monday, according to local media.

Torrential rains followed by flash floods have claimed scores of lives across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials and local media said Wednesday.

A huge fire has engulfed the roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday.

One man is dead, another person is in hospital and a suspect is in police custody after a shooting at a small church in Salmon Arm, B.C., on Sunday, Trend reports citing CBC.

The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been admitted to a hospital in the Indian capital with a chest infection, although his condition was improving, his spokesperson told EFE on Wednesday.

A 9-year-old girl was hit by a KamAZ truck in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan region.

The man arrested in relation to the Christchurch mosque shootings will face 50 charges of murder and 39 of attempted murder, New Zealand Police announced Thursday.

At least 18 people were injured on Wednesday after an explosion tore through a restaurant in southern Philippine province of Sultan Kudarat, a military spokesperson said.

At least 25 people were killed and 400 others injured when a storm devastated villages in two districts of Nepal on Sunday evening, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli confirmed.

Dozens of people were killed on Thursday when a fire broke out in a high-rise building in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, officials said.