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  • Nirmal Purja in a cap and white scarf holds his hands together in a prayer gesture, smiling

    Top mountaineer Nirmal Purja confirmed dead after 11 hit by avalanche in Pakistan

    Other members of expedition led by world-renowned climber on Broad Peak have also died, climbing company says
  • People walk along Batu Bolong beach with waves rolling in and traditional buildings in the background

    ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: how a Bali run club reignited tourist tensions on holiday island

  • Nirmal Purja in an orange jacket stands on a snowy summit at sunrise with mountain peaks behindNOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    World-renowned climber Nirmal Purja among 11 struck by avalanche on Pakistan mountain

  • Workers and a robot prepare tea beside each other at a booth at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum earlier this year. China’s rollout of AI has sparked concerns about the future of the jobs market.

    Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer

  • Workers walk past a damaged house and partially collapsed in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture

    Death toll in Japan earthquake rises to 30 as aftershock and heat hamper rescue efforts

  • The damaged Aeon Mall shopping centre, where an explosion occurred after an earthquake

    Rescue teams face ‘race against time’ in search for trapped survivors as death toll in Japan rises to at least 13 – as it happened

  • Japan's prime minister says effort to find survivors of Tuesday's earthquake is 'race against time'

    'People are waiting to be rescued': race under way to find Japan quake survivors – video

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  • Rescue workers gather on a debris-covered street beside a severely damaged white building with collapsed walls

    Japan
    Japan earthquake injures at least 100 and kills two inside shopping mall

  • An aerial view shows the damaged Aeon Mall shopping centre after an earthquake struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture

    Japan
    Deaths feared after ‘many people’ trapped inside Japanese shopping centre following earthquake – as it happened

  • A Philippines Jeepney driver refuels his vehicle in Manila. The Houthis have blocked a crucial Red Sea shipping route that will cause fresh energy headaches for Asian economies.

    Asia Pacific
    Asia ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ as Red Sea oil blockade worsens energy crisis

  • A person in a white raincoat photographs the misty Hong Kong skyline from a waterfront promenade

    China
    Typhoon Noul forces more than 715,000 from homes and cancels hundreds of flights in China and Hong Kong

  • People wade through a flooded street and a man pushes a stalled motor rickshaw

    El Niño southern oscillation
    India’s monsoon rains in danger as UN chief warns planet is ‘on fire’

  • Two women, one carrying a metal container on her head, walk past a colourfully painted roadside structure

    Global development
    A rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing for a ‘super’ El Niño as monsoon arrives late

  • Bikram Lama on a phone screen

    Sydney
    After eight months, the body of Bikram Lama – Sydney’s ‘birdman’ – is finally going home

  • Two armed uniformed men in back of pickup on street with several other people and cars in shot

    Kashmir
    Pakistan accused of fatally shooting 30 unarmed protesters in Kashmir

Pictures & video

  • A partially collapsed bridge after the earthquake in Yatsushiro, in Kumamoto prefecture.

    Earthquake rocks southern Japanese island of Kyushu – in pictures

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