The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, roars into space through clear blue skies in its debut test flight from a Florida launch site where moon missions once began.

Swiss President Alain Berset says Switzerland calls for the full implementation of the report of the Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan to protect Rohingyas and ensure their safe return to Myanmar.

The UN's human rights chief warns that Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict.

NASA has transformed selfies taken by its Mars rover Curiosity into a stunning self-portrait.

The world has failed to protect the Rohingya women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says. “I think their [Myanmar] government to begin with. Their country has failed them in a massive way,” she said.

Myanmar’s government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military with help from Buddhist neighbors, saying that only “terrorists” were killed and they were “carefully buried.”

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners are ramping up efforts to mitigate some of the expected impacts of the upcoming monsoon season in Bangladesh.

Myanmar tells the United Nations Security Council not to visit during February this year because it was "not the right time," Kuwait's UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi says, adding that the country did not completely reject the proposed trip.

A Myanmar court yesterday denied bail to two Reuters journalists charged under a secrecy act that could see them face up to 14 years

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the international community including the United Nations (UN) to keep up pressure on the Myanmar government to implement Kofi Annan Commission report on the Rohingya Issue.

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee says the decision of repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees anytime soon was premature.

More than five mass graves, all previously unreported, have been confirmed by The Associated Press through multiple interviews with more than two dozen survivors in Bangladesh refugee camps and through time-stamped cellphone videos.

The therapist who started the project is among 3,500 who won health quality service awards.

Indonesian police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, authorities say, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh is facing massive socio-economic and demographic pressure due to the presence of a huge number of Rohingyas.

The sight of a cockroach crawling in her car gave a 61-year-old woman such a fright that she crashed into one end of an overhead bridge in Jurong East Central of Singapore last Friday.

Visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo laid emphasis on having a peaceful and quick solution to the Rohingya crisis against the backdrop of the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi remains Myanmar’s best hope for change, veteran US mediator Bill Richardson said on Friday, days after he got into a fight with the Nobel laureate and quit an international panel advising her government on the Rohingya crisis.

Thailand's former ruling party yesterday slammed the junta's latest postponement of elections until 2019. Late Thursday, the military

Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson denied he was asked by Myanmar's government to step down from an international advisory board on the Rohingya crisis, his spokesman said yesterday.