A man suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers used to mine bitcoins and other virtual currencies has likely fled to Sweden after breaking out of a prison in Iceland and catching the same flight Iceland's prime minister was on.

A medical examiner says a woman who was wearing a seatbelt suffered trauma to her head, neck and torso after a window she was sitting next to separated from the fuselage of a US airliner.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte takes aim at a 71-year-old Australian nun who he ordered an investigation into, telling her to focus on Australia's handling of "hungry and dying refugees", not his country's issues.

Two female pimps and a policeman are sentenced to jail terms of up to 320 years for offering teenage girls as "dessert" for visiting officials in Thailand.

Zimbabwe fires thousands of nurses as the new government seeks to keep a lid on labour unrest in the build-up to the first elections since the fall of Robert Mugabe.