A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame - which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m - was flooded after a glacial ...

Most homes in the quake-hit districts of Jajarkot and Rukum, where houses are traditionally built by stacking rocks and logs, collapsed.

Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases like malaria used to be confined to the tropical areas of Nepal. But in the last three years, there have been over 900 cases of malaria in the mountain regions.

Any time the phone rings, Mahananda, a local schoolteacher, thinks it might bring news of Bipin, or even - his deepest hope - his son's voice on the line. "Sadly, it is always someone else," Mahananda ...

The death toll stood at 126 as of Tuesday evening. The quake struck the city of Xigaze, the traditional seat of the Panchen ...

and Tihar (November), are celebrated in the lower regions of Nepal. Ancient villages: Villages like Marpha, Jhong, Thini, and Kagbeni and monasteries like Zharkot are spread across the majestic ...

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said more than 1,000 homes were damaged in the barren and sparsely populated region.

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BEIJING/KATHMANDU >> A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing hundreds of houses, ...