AFP, SYDNEY: Deposed Australian prime minister Tony Abbott declared Wednesday “cultures are not all equal” and the West should proclaim its superiority over Islam which he said has a “massive problem”, in comments slammed as divisive. Abbott, who was ousted by Malcolm Turnbull…

AFP, BANGKOK: The US Ambassador to Thailand is under investigation for royal defamation over comments he made criticising lengthy jail sentences from the kingdom’s lese majeste law, a foreign media group and police said Wednesday. Under Thai law anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir…

AFP, ATHENS: At least 11 migrants, including five children, drowned and about 10 were missing after their boat sank overnight off the Greek island of Farmakonisi, Greek maritime police said Wednesday. Twenty-six people were saved and a search was under way in the southeastern Aegean Sea for other survivors…