The death toll in the recent flash floods across central and eastern parts of the country increased to 38. The State Ministry for Disaster Management said.

Over the past 24 hours as heavy rains continue to lash in Pakistan, and at least 119 people have died.

The number of people who have been infected by a new coronavirus across China, has reached 11,791 with 259 patients having died from the disease, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.

China on Tuesday urged its citizens to postpone foreign travel to curb a viral outbreak that has killed 106 people, as the first cases of human-to-human contagion were detected abroad.

Indonesian rescue teams flew helicopters stuffed with food to remote flood-hit communities on Saturday as the death toll from the disaster jumped to 53 and fears grew about the possibility of more torrential rain.

The death toll from the contagious Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 865 since the start of an outbreak last July, according to an official statement on Monday.

A tsunami following a volcanic eruption killed at least 168 people when it slammed without warning into popular beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Saturday night, cutting a swathe of destruction and triggering mass panic as it swept inland.

A US soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of the American forces in the war-torn country to nine this year.

Suicide bombing took place among crowd of supporters of Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum near Kabul airport on Sunday