Thailand asks farmers not to grow off-season rice on drought worries
Thailand entered a dry season on Nov. 1, which is expected to last through to April 30 next year
Cyclone Bulbul death toll rises to 12 in Bangladesh, five fishermen missing
Around 6,000 homes have been partially or fully damaged, although refugee camps in the southeast were largely spared
A dozen dead, fishermen missing after cyclone Bulbul lashes Bangladesh and India
Some 2 million people from all of Bangladesh's 13 coastal districts huddled in about 5,558 shelters on Saturday night
Salvadoran massacre victims still hunting 'truth and justice' 38 years later
Soldiers tortured and executed more than a thousand residents of El Mozote and surrounding hamlets in the Morazán department as they searched for guerrillas in December 1981
Residents told to leave homes as downpours bring floods across northern England
Most of the serious flooding has affected central and northern England but there are more than 100 other alerts across the country
Quake in northwestern Iran kills 4, injures 70 -reports
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the quake was felt by some 20 million people
War crimes judges jail Congolese warlord Ntaganda for 30 years
The list of crimes on Ntaganda's charge sheet included conscription of child soldiers, as well as rape and sexual enslavement of both civilians and child soldiers
French police clear migrant tent camps in northern Paris
Since the closure of a huge migrant camp in Calais in 2016, many refugees have moved to Paris, which has repeatedly broken up camps only to see them pop up again in different areas
Water crisis builds in Egypt as dam talks falter, temperatures rise
Talk of physical conflict between the countries along the Nile has receded, but Egypt sees the dam as an existential threat that could decimate farming and damage power supplies
Militia in Congo kills 10 civilians in village raid
The attack comes five days after Congo launched a large-scale operation against insurgent group Allied Democratic Forces in an area which is also fighting to contain the Ebola epidemic