Senior government and military figures in Pakistan enjoy a host of lavish privileges, from plots of land to heavy police escorts that disrupt traffic.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who completed 100 days in office on Tuesday, made it clear that he was unwilling to disclose the location.

Undeterred by the criticism from various quarters, the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPM) that heads Kerala’s opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF), has decided to go ahead with its controversial family survey.

The quake struck in the sea at a depth of 133 kilometres (82 miles) some 48 kilometres northwest of the US territory’s capital Hagatna.

Rolls-Royce said two of the cars will be the most expensive Phantoms ever commissioned, complete with “gold-plated accents” on the outside and interior.

Soldiers went from house to house asking residents to evacuate, after authorities on Monday raised the third highest alert in a five-step scale, meaning a full-scale eruption is possible “within weeks”.

Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was downgraded from a typhoon when it struck northern coastal Vietnam on Tuesday night. About 55,000 people in four northern coastal provinces were evacuated ahead of the storm.

Mixed in with details about improvements to cameras and screens was advice that would-be buyers inclined to use smartphones as, well, phones, should opt for an iPhone 6 instead of its bigger-screened brother the iPhone 6 Plus.

Nearly $1.0 billion dollars is needed to fight the Ebola outbreak raging in west Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday, more than doubling the estimate it made less than a month ago.

Under martial law, the number of visitors to Thailand fell more than 10 per cent in the first eight months of 2014 from a year ago to 15.7 million.