A huge fire rips through a luxury Dubai hotel Thursday night, injuring 16 people, just a few hours before the emirate celebrated the new year with a spectacular fireworks display nearby.

A fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia kills 25 people and injures 107, the country's civil defence says in a statement.

The transboundary haze crisis of 2015, which affected millions across Southeast Asia, will go down as one of the worst in recent history - surpassing the 1997 and 2013 crises.

One person dies after a fire at a building in Dhaka’s commercial hub Motijheel.

Fire breaks out at an office room of the second floor of Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Believed to have been caused by an electrical malfunction, the fire is said to have caused insignificant damage.

At least 30 shops are gutted in a fire that broke out at a market in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur this noon.

Three young men suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out at their rented house at Narinda in Dhaka.

US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids.

Three members of a family were severely burnt in a fire that broke out due to gas pipe leakage at their house in Wari area of the capital early today.

The fire that broke out at a multistoried building in Paltan area of Dhaka was brought under control after around half an hour.

South Korea's navy fire shots at a North Korean boat that strayed into its waters, the Yonhap news agency reports.

At least two workers were burnt as a fire broke out at a shoe manufacturing factory in Bangshal area of Dhaka.

Seven people including six of a family are injured in a fire that broke out due to gas line explosion at a house in Senpara area of Dhaka.

A fire has broken out at a mosque in south London.

A British Airways plane bound for London catches fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides.

Two security guards of Gulshan Youth Club are burnt in a fire set by police to destroy seized goods in Gulshan area of Dhaka early.

A fire in an apartment building in northern Paris kills eight people, including two children.

Authorities temporarily shut down the 60MW thermal power station at Shikalbaha in Chittagong following a fire incident.

Five people including two minor boys of a family are burnt in a fire that broke out a house at South Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka.

A fire breaks out on the first floor of a five-storey building located at Kobiraj lane of Shakkhari Bazar area in Dhaka.