rte.ie A Dublin-bound Flybe flight had to turn back to England after a bee became lodged in one of the plane's instruments. The appropriately-named flight BE384 was travelling from Southampton to Dublin when it hit insect trouble.

reuters An international rescue fleet plucked almost 5900 migrants from rickety boats making the perilous sea crossing from North Africa to Europe on Saturday and Sunday, Italy's coastguard said.

VIDEO Sleepwalking is relatively common but Perth man Scott Mackay took things to the next level. The 25-year-old was on holiday in Thailand, and one day in he woke up in a hospital bed after he sleepwalked off the top of a six-storey Phuket hotel.

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bangkokpost.com The national police chief has ordered a probe into Irish businessman Colin Vard's embezzlement case. He claimed he was conned out of millions of baht worth of assets on Phuket.
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bangkokpost.com A Thai driver and three Hong Kong tourists were killed and three others injured, including a child, when their van crashed on Cha-am-Pran Buri bypass in Cha-am district on Sunday evening.

rte.ie Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine.



washingtonpost.com/AP Critics say Thailand must do more to show it is serious about fighting human trafficking if it is to get off the US blacklist and avoid the EU seafood import ban: ''Thailand has been accused of having the culture of impunity of state officials in the past, but this crisis offers a first chance to break that culture.''

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foxnews.com/AP ''Thailand remains major center for human trafficking.'' Those words were emblazoned on a huge headline in a Thai daily newspaper printed nearly three years ago. The country's answer was largely to ignore the problem, until recent events made that impossible.

Phuket Update The fact that the Royal Thai Navy is continuing its farcical criminal defamation pursuit of two Phuketwan journalists who exposed the shoddy treatment of Rohingya boatpeople in Thailand over many years demonstrates change is not coming in a hurry, says the Australian editor of the award-winning online news site, Alan Morison.

nst.com.my The route starts from Kawthaung (Myanmar) to Ranong (Thailand)-Phuket-Phang Nga-Krabi-Trang to the final destination at Satun before the migrants are smuggled into Malaysia.



traveldailynews.asia The Thai Government is planning to build two new cruise ports in Krabi and Surat Thani in the south of Thailand to facilitate more cruise-line visitors. In addition, Phuket International Airport is being expanded to more than double its annual capacity to 12.5 million passengers by 2016, said Juthaporn Rerngronasa, Acting Governor, TAT.

bangkokpost.com Editorial: With Thailand's per capita income standing at about 10,900 baht per month, the Forbes magazine richest list is reminiscent of the often-cited problem of the stark inequalities that have plagued the country for decades.

wsj.com Saudi Arabia's highest court on Sunday upheld a 1000-lash flogging sentence against the country's leading liberal dissident, Raif Badawi. The blogger and activist will also be jailed for 10 years and fined $266,000. Mr Badawi has now exhausted the appellate process, and the ruling can't be overturned save for a pardon by King Salman.

theguardian.com South Korean authorities will track the mobile phones of hundreds of people under quarantine to prevent the spread of the deadly Mers virus as they reported a fifth death in the outbreak, bringing the number of infections rising to 64.

bbc.com Turkey's governing AK party has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years, near-complete election results show. The surprise outcome also sees the pro-Kurdish HDP crossing the 10 percent threshold, securing seats for the first time.

cbc.ca Two convicted murderers who used power tools to escape from prison near the Canadian border must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday as a $100,000 reward was posted for information leading to their capture.

scmp.com Family members demand a transparent probe into the Yangtze ship disaster as the death toll reaches 431.

theguardian.com Supermodel Kate Moss was escorted off an EasyJet flight at London Luton airport by police because she had allegedly become disruptive. The 41-year-old was coming home from a holiday in Turkey but after her plane landed around 4.15pm she was taken off the flight by police officers. [Ms Moss was once a regular visitor to Phuket.]



metro.co.uk Ten western tourists who stripped naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain have been blamed for an earthquake that killed at least 16 people - as a result they have been prohibited from leaving Malaysia.

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afp Stan Wawrinka spectacularly shattered Novak Djokovic's dream of a career Grand Slam on Sunday when he became the oldest winner of the French Open in 25 years. The 30-year-old Swiss claimed a famous 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory to secure his second career major.

espn.go.com Norway got its Women's World Cup campaign off to an impressive start with a 4-0 win over Thailand.

afp Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the then South African president Thabo Mbeki discussed the $10-million that ended up in the hands of Fifa corrupt officials, according to a 2007 email published on Sunday by a South African paper.



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