Jakarta and its sprawling environs’ 42mn inhabitants are now the most populous conurbation, according to the UN

Desperate search for more than 90 missing after building collapses while students held prayers at school in Sidoarjo Parents and rescuers in Indonesia were desperately searching for dozens of teenage boys believed to be trapped, a day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school which has already left three dead, authorities said. Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...