About 300 Myanmar protesters demonstrated outside the UN office in Bangkok on Sunday against the coup in their country before a video clip showed they were dispersed by riot police.

KANCHANABURI: A villager was seriously wounded in the left foot in a land mine explosion on the border with Myanmar in Muang district of this western province early on Sunday.

Office of Narcotic Control Board officials have seized assets worth about 15 million baht in Kanchanaburi province.

PRACHIN BURI: Three suspects in the theft of an ATM machine containing about 700,000 baht from a market in Kabin Buri district town in the small hours of Feb 4 have been arrested, police said at a press conference on Sunday.

An Indonesian village was inundated by crimson-coloured water after flooding hit a fabric dyeing centre in central Java, sparking a social media frenzy.

A strong earthquake hit the southern Philippines on Sunday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the US Geological Survey and local officials said.

TRIPOLI: Libya embarked Saturday on a new phase of its post-Kadhafi transition after an interim executive was selected to lead the country until December elections following a decade of chaos.

Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerat­tanachai have credited hard work, determination and friendship for helping them write a new chapter in badminton history.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is weaning itself off user-tracking "cookies" which allow the web giant to deliver personalized ads but which also have raised the hackles of privacy defenders.

The government on Sunday recorded 237 new coronavirus cases, for an accumulated total of 23,371 since the pandemic began a year ago.