Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed "very top" level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberately downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide.

Investigators with India's antitrust watchdog have found no evidence that the country's biggest airline, IndiGo, and four rival carriers colluded to fix ticket prices, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

South Korea reported 15 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, including 10 people involved in a surprise outbreak traced to several church services in the central city of Daegu.

US President Donald Trump will inaugurate the world’s largest cricket stadium when he arrives in Ahmedabad, the home base of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at smoothing ties strained by trade disputes.

Renowned actor Tapas Pal – rated as one of the biggest superstars of Bengali films in the post-Uttam Kumar era – who also served two terms as Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP, died following a cardiac arrest at a Mumbai hospital yesterday, family sources said.

Parts of Wales that have been hit by the worst floods in a generation are preparing for further rain in the next 48 hours, as more than 450 flood warnings and alerts remain in place across the UK.

A Ukrainian soldier was killed and four others injured when heavy fighting erupted yesterday in eastern Ukraine, the country’s military said, as it and Russian-backed separatists blamed each other for the flare-up.

Thousands protested in Greece yesterday against a new pension reform as a 24-hour strike paralysed transport and services.

Diversity, politics and revelations from the Nazi era will dominate the agenda when the Berlin film festival launches its 70th edition in the heart of the German capital this tomorrow.

Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is no longer being kept in solitary confinement and his health is improving, his spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told reporters yesterday.

London’s mayor Sadiq Khan pushed the idea of an “associate” EU citizenship for Britons after Brexit, as he visited Brussels yesterday to see officials including the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Lahore on Monday evening along with his delegation, where he was received by Punjab Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht and other senior government officials at the Allama Iqbal International Airport.