Indonesia on Monday formalised ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty at the United Nations and its foreign minister called on eight key holdout nations to take a "calculated risk" and sign on.
Rescuers in the Philippines dug through rubble with shovels and their bare hands Tuesday after a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and killed dozens of people.
Ten women and three children were killed with dozens of others trapped under rubble when a factory collapsed in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said.
