A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derails, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66, in the island’s worst rail disaster in nearly four decades.

The latest phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard evidence of how the council and the associated management organization systematically bullied and neglected tenants and residents of the doomed tower block.

Japan falls silent to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country's living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that traumatized a nation.

Severe flooding in the city of Karawang in Indonesia's West Java province forces 4,000 people from their homes.

The resumption of the long-delayed Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard evidence that the cladding firm at the center of the disaster had withheld vital information from certifiers.