JAKARTA - An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by encroaching wildfires to their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier this week, authorities said on Saturday.

Police have arrested a 38-year-old man accused of running an online network that recruited girls under 18 for prostitution, with investigators linking him to more than 50 victims.

An Israeli man convicted last month of making threats against the owners of a zoo on Koh Samui has become the first foreigner ordered out of Thailand under new rules governing deportation.

THINGVELLIR, Iceland - In a small enclosure of lava stones in a grassy field, a modest tombstone bears the name of an Icelandic legend: Jonas Hallgrimsson. But are the bones beneath it really those of the poet, or a Danish grocer?

Flash floods and inundation are expected across the North, Northeast and East of Thailand through Tuesday, according to the Office of National Water Resources.