PARIS - An elegant, white-haired Parisian savours a biscuity cloud of cream and apple down to the last crumb at one of the French capital’s many bakeries — but this client has four legs, not two.

BURI RAM - A volunteer leader of a wild elephant surveillance group was killed after being trampled and gored while leading a team to drive three pachyderms away from a community in this northeastern province in the early hours of Thursday.

KYIV - Large-scale Russian strikes on Kyiv killed one person and wounded at least 31 others, city authorities said on Thursday, as Moscow ramped up attacks on Ukraine following a short-lived ceasefire.

Thailand will officially enter the rainy season on Friday, May 15, but with less rain than usual in the forecast, the Meteorological Department announced on Thursday.

PATTAYA - Sixteen Chinese nationals were arrested during a late-night raid on an illegal poker den operating inside a luxury house in this resort city, with three injured after jumping from a second-floor window in an attempt to escape.

Thailand will officially enter the rainy season on Friday, May 15, but with less rain than usual in the forecast, the Meteorological Department announced on Thursday.

Fisheries officials are rushing to inspect seawater in Pattaya on Thursday after freshwater blackchin tilapia were reportedly caught off the beach in the resort city in Chon Buri.

NEW DELHI - They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies across west Africa.

The government's interest payment burden relative to government revenue, even after borrowing 400 billion baht, is unlikely to exceed the level acceptable to credit rating agencies, according to the Finance Ministry.

The government has declared war on the encroachment of public land and the use of Thai nominees to front foreign-owned businesses, starting with Koh Phangan in Surat Thani and at Freedom Beach in Phuket.