Volunteers toiled for hours on Friday cleaning mostly man-made debris from a New York coastline, the scattered religious offerings from a growing Hindu population in Queens.
The Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest species of freshwater dolphins, have been found in surprisingly large numbers deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh.
Thousands of people still stranded after weeks of flooding in northern India.
At least 50,000 people have refused to abandon their homes in flood-ravaged northern India
Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north.
Fishermen in Bangladesh beat a rare river dolphin to death because they had not seen "this kind of creature before," according to local news accounts.
South Korea has long enjoyed some of the fastest and most widely available broadband Internet access on the planet. Top online gamers are bona-fide TV celebrities, and long before MySpace, there was South Korea's Cyworld, a social networking site launched back in 1999.
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi killed 14 people, Indian authorities have told CNN.
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi have killed 14 people and wounded dozens more, Indian authorities have told CNN.
A woman died and 49 people were missing after a passenger ferry collided with a docked ferry and capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh, local police said.
Fourteen people are feared dead after a boat carrying 27 people capsized in the Ganges River, Indian authorities say.
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