Anti-narcotics agents from the United States and Sri Lanka seized almost half a tonne of crystal methamphetamine following a joint operation targeting a Pakistani drug network, police said yesterday.

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left nearly 4,000 missing.

Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital.

Rescuers in Nepal and China yesterday battled through leg-sucking mud and the threat of rain, rising rivers and a newly formed lake to search for thousands missing after a glacier collapse unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Himalayas.

Pakistan's prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country's capital

Rescuers in Nepal and China were racing against time yesterday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing entire villages.

The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 Friday, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.

Two days after the catastrophic flood tore through Nepal, the numbers tell only part of the story.

Wednesday's catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 489 people in Nepal and five in China's Tibet

'Something’s happened to Sole Bazaar and Betrawati — people are saying there’s nothing left. Everyone’s out on the road. There are videos of them panicking.'

Rescue teams waded through mud yesterday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose sharply to at least 392, with entire villages swept away.

China’s Ministry of Water Resources estimated the lake’s volume at about 2 mn cubic metres as of this morning

"I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if ​it was an earthquake," the worker said

Nepal said that 468 tourists and travellers, including 393 foreigners, remained out of contact

A glacial collapse caused seismic activity and "catastrophic" downstream impacts in Nepal and Tibet, the US Geological Survey said Thursday

Rescue teams rushed to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides

In a still-unfolding disaster, verified videos showed dozens of people swept away at the border, with authorities on both sides fearing far higher casualties and massive destruction

Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah may keep his signature dark sunglasses on in the legislature due to medical reasons, an official said yesterday, after the Parliament Speaker had advised against it.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was briefly taken to hospital, declared medically fit and sent back to prison within a few hours early yesterday, a surprise move that his supporters and party said violated a top court directive.

Former premier’s party accuses authorities of contempt as supporters protest his return to prison