Kenya has secured 67.5 billion shillings ($666 million) in funding from China to build a data centre in a tech city currently under construction and a highway in Nairobi, the president's office said on Friday.

Five people died and 20 others were injured on Monday when a bus crashed into the pillar of a viaduct in northern Spain, authorities said.

Water from a breached dam flooded communities in central Myanmar on Wednesday and blocked part of a highway linking the main cities of Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyitaw.

The crash occurred about 10:20 am in Mount Olive Township in northern New Jersey's Morris County, Governor Phil Murphy told a news conference.

It further cements President Bashar al-Assad's dominant position over the most populated parts of Syria after years of fighting, but means any new military campaign might risk direct conflict with foreign powers.

Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, speaking on state television ERT, described the flooding as "a catastrophe, a tragedy".

The roughly 2,000 protesters are demanding the resignation of the federal law minister over a hastily-abandoned amendment to the country's blasphemy laws.

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has opened the southern part of Doha Express Highway and Hamad Port Road, two key roads designed to further improve traffic flow in the southern areas of Qatar.

Some 1,800 people, many of them pilgrims, were stranded after a landslide hit a highway near a Hindu temple site in India's northern mountainous state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

QIB has signed a QR1bn financing deal with Daewoo Engineering and Construction Company that will support the latter’s projects in Qatar including the construction and upgrading of the E-Ring Road.

A South Korean tour bus carrying a group of retirees crashed and caught fire on a highway near the southeastern city of Ulsan, killing 10, police said on Friday, adding that the driver survived and had been arrested.

Sri Lanka police briefly detained a national cricketer after a fatal crash involving his car and a motorcycle on one of the most dangerous roads in the country.