Hundreds turn out for anti-pollution protest in Delhi
Hundreds of people in Delhi took to the streets on Sunday to protest against pollution as air quality continues to worsen in India's capital and surrounding areas, BBC reported.
People of all ages, including children, held banners and shouted slogans, demanding that the government take action to curb pollution, which is touching severe levels.
Around 80 people were briefly detained by the police, who said the protesters did not have permission to gather near India Gate, a landmark in the city, according to BBC.
Boat with Rohingya migrants sinks off Malaysia, hundreds missing
A boat carrying members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar has sunk near the Thai-Malaysian border, with hundreds missing, seven dead and 13 rescued, the Malaysian maritime agency said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Rescuers were combing an area of 170 square nautical miles near Langkawi island on Saturday after a boat with 300 people on board left Myanmar's Rakhine state three days earlier, said the maritime agency head for the area Romli Mustafa.
Myanmar's impoverished Rakhine state has suffered years of conflict, hunger and ethnic violence mostly targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority community. Driven out of Rakhine state following a brutal 2017 military crackdown, some 1.3 million Rohingya live as refugees in densely-packed camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to Reuters.
Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran
Iran - especially its capital, Tehran - is facing an unprecedented drought this autumn, with rainfall at record lows and reservoirs nearly empty. Officials are pleading with citizens to conserve water as the crisis deepens, BBC reported.
President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that if there is not enough rainfall soon, Tehran's water supply could be rationed. But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.
"If rationing doesn't work," Pezeshkian said, "we may have to evacuate Tehran."
Philippines hit by 'intense' typhoon as nearly a million evacuate
Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died, BBC reported.
The storm hit as a super typhoon, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph).
The eye of the storm hit Aurora province in Luzon - the country's most populous island - at 21:10 local time (13:10 GMT). By 02:00, the storm weakened to a typhoon and was over La Union in western Luzon, according to BBC.
