At least 15 people, including 10 women and three men, were killed Monday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after three houses collapsed completely due to heavy rains, officials said.
At least 17 people from four families in India were buried alive as they were sleeping on Monday when heavy rains caused a large wall to collapse on their homes, police said.
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced he will resign in January amid police investigations of the murder of a journalist that are engulfing his administration.
Two airstrikes within 72 hours killed 14 children and injured at least 10 other civilians in Libya, said the forces of Libya's UN-backed government on Sunday.