As he surveys his acres of charred farmland outside New Delhi, Ishwar Singh has little sympathy for people choking in India’s capital or any reason to stop the fires that are fuelling pollution.

People may be queuing up and jostling in front of banks and ATMs to get hard cash for daily sustenance after the government demonetised Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes, but it’s the mobile wallet companies that are laughing all the way to the bank.

A 38-year-old British man set out yesterday on a 3,200km swim from Senegal to Brazil, seeking to become the first person to make it across the Atlantic Ocean.

A two-minute silence led by the Queen was held to honour the war dead as the nation’s leaders gathered at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

A plane flies past the moon a day before the “supermoon” spectacle in Kathmandu yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Morocco today on a three-day official visit to attend two high-level segments of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), officials said yesterday.

Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal yesterday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike.

In a new blow to the stability of Lesotho, a leading parliamentary rebel yesterday called for a new ruling coalition in the mountain kingdom, gripped by political crisis for two years.

Twelve vintage biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s set off from the Greek island of Crete over the weekend bound for South Africa for a 12,800km race never attempted before by so many antique aircraft.

The race for the highest post at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be between three senior military officers, according to an informed source.

President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, a move that would allow warrantless arrests, if illegal drugs and terrorism spread across the country.

Pope Francis, at a Mass for poor and homeless people, yesterday warned against the “anaesthetised consciences” of those who see the needy as bothersome instead of as brothers and sisters to be helped.