A lake formed by debris blocking the Bhotekoshi River is rising and at risk of bursting, warns Nepal's disaster management authority

The US Army announced Wednesday it has awarded a combined $2.2 billion to vendors to build and operate small nuclear reactors at five military bases in the United States.

Rescue teams waded through mud yesterday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose sharply to at least 392, with entire villages swept away.

A large barrier lake has formed in Nepal, with Chinese authorities warning that the lake is already overflowing and could breach as more water flows into it over the coming days.

An “unknown projectile” struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire that has since been put out, a British maritime agency said early yesterday.

A glacial collapse caused seismic activity and “catastrophic” downstream impacts in Nepal and Tibet, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said yesterday.

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died, Serbian state broadcaster RTS reported yesterday.

Russia hammered the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities with missiles and drones early yesterday, officials said, targeting warehouses, ports, and energy and industrial facilities in an hours-long assault that dragged into the morning.

Anxious relatives crowded the corridors of a Kathmandu hospital yesterday as they searched for missing family after devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 270 people.

More than half of the world’s soils are in poor condition, threatening global food supplies and biodiversity, while proven measures to improve soil health are not being implemented, said a UN report released yesterday.

A highly unusual trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on Nato member states, US media reported Wednesday, after President Donald Trump sought to downplay the visit.

Trump signed an order in the White House, telling reporters the change was "effective immediately"

MAG, which operates the Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said the data of 8.7 million customers had been compromised

China’s Ministry of Water Resources estimated the lake’s volume at about 2 mn cubic metres as of this morning

Prime Minister Balendra Shah visited some of the hardest-hit areas today

The surge then moved downstream through the Bhotekoshi into the Trishuli river and gradually spread to downstream areas.

When asked for a breakdown of nationalities of the missing foreigners, Lin said specific information was still under further verification.

"Petrol production is insufficient, and because of the US naval blockade, we cannot import it," the official IRNA news agency quoted Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah as saying on Wednesday.

Flash floods and landslides on Wednesday killed at least 165 people and more than 1,300 remain missing on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Satellite imagery suggests a section of glacier about 2,000 feet wide broke off at an altitude of around 17,000 feet, falling nearly 4,000 feet to the valley below, said geologist Daniel Shugar