India's iconic Taj Mahal has been threatened in recent weeks by insect poo - environmentalists say that bugs from the polluted Yamuna river nearby are invading the monument, leaving greenish-black patches of waste on its pristine white marble walls.

The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been granted refugee status in the UK, according to his lawyer.

About 30 climbers have suffered frostbite or become ill on Mount Everest, after two more died from apparent altitude sickness.

A man who stripped naked and entered a lion enclosure in a Chilean zoo has survived the incident, but the lions were killed.

Barack Obama has arrived for the start of his three-day visit to Vietnam, only the third by a sitting US president since the end of the Vietnam War.

A city in India's Rajasthan state has broken the country's temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says.

A second schoolgirl from the more than 200 seized in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found, the army says.

Tsai Ing-wen has been sworn in as the new president of Taiwan, the island's first female leader.