Madagascar cyclone kills 29, displaces thousands
More than 13,000 people are displaced and schools are shut due to flooding and risk of landslides
Civilian deaths from explosives surge in 2017 - campaign group
More than half of the deaths were caused by airstrikes, mainly in Syria, Iraq and Yemen
France registers record asylum requests in 2017
Official asylum requests rose 17 percent to exceed 100,000, the highest "in at least four decades"
Peru's alpine herders revive ancient technologies to face the future
Indigenous communities are restoring abandoned dams, reservoirs and canals that date back over 3,000 years
Madagascar cyclone kills six, displaces thousands
More 13,000 people have been displaced and many schools are shut due to flooding and risk of landslides
Cooperation to curb Asia’s climate risks still too rare – scientists
Asia's mountain nations face similar climate risks but political and logistical problems stop information sharing, officials say
India's top court to review past verdict on gay sex ban
"What is natural to one may not be natural to others," top court says
Would human beings survive another century?
We must redesign our unsustainable economic system and create new civilization based on empathy sharing and caring
"Silent in fear": refugee women in Malaysia unprotected against violence
"He would hit me if he was not happy. If I cried, he covered my mouth with a pillow so our neighbours could not hear me"
Libyan coastguard recovers bodies of two migrants, others missing
Survivors said that several dozen migrants were unaccounted for and were feared to have drowned