As a young man, Fred Chin spent years imprisoned on a craggy island off Taiwan.

A freak electrocution in southern India killed at least 11 people, including two children, when their vehicle snagged overhead transmission lines and burst into flames as they rode in a religious procession, authorities said on Wednesday.

Desperate efforts are underway to save dozens of pilot whales still alive after hundreds stranded themselves on a New Zealand beach, in the third largest mass stranding in the country's history.

For the first time, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has directly accused North Korea of murdering Kim Jong Nam.

At least 15 people were killed and dozens more wounded Wednesday in two separate attacks in the Afghan capital, police officials told CNN.