KHON KAEN - A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand’s “dinosaur rush”.

MONZA, Monza - Lewis Hamilton will seek to boost his hopes of an unprecedented eighth drivers’ world championship with a record sixth Italian Grand Prix win on Sunday when he races on Ferrari’s home tarmac.

SYDNEY - Washington and Canberra have agreed to boost the US military presence in Australia and speed up cooperation, both countries said on Thursday.

KATHMANDU - When a wall of icy debris from a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border tore through his village last week, Pemba Chhring Tamang watched the landscape he had known all his life disappear.

KOROR, Palau - The president of Palau called on Thursday for a “unified” Pacific response to July’s missile test by China on the final day of a summit clouded by allegations of meddling by Beijing.