NEW YORK - Tesla shareholders will determine on Thursday the fate of a massive pay package meant to retain Elon Musk long enough to achieve technological breakthroughs he vows will change the world.

MADRID - Young people in Spain are increasingly seduced by General Francisco Franco 50 years after the dictator’s death, often unaware of his harsh rule and influenced by propaganda permeating social media, experts say.

SURAT THANI - Police have arrested an Israeli couple who made a sex video at a waterfall on the tourist island of Koh Phangan, while two other foreign men have been detained after a drug party.

City Hall workers collected 391,027 krathong floats from local waterways after Wednesday night’s Loy Krathong festival, a decrease of 24% from last year.

Authorities say they believe 42 Chinese nationals who were arrested at a resort in Chanthaburi province on Tuesday night were preparing to cross into Cambodia to join a call centre scam operation.

A Russian man who was seen applying QR code stickers advertising illegal drugs for sale on street poles in Phuket has been arrested after fleeing to Koh Samui.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for sexual harassment to be made a crime nationwide after being groped on the street in an attack that underscored the dangers women in the Latin American country face.

PHUKET - Heavy rain caused severe flooding in tambon Patong, putting a damper on Loy Krathong festivities on Wednesday night.

Typhoon Kalmaegi was moving over the South China Sea early Thursday and will reach central Vietnam by Friday, before weakening and arriving in northeastern Thailand later the same day, according to the Meteorological Department.

A Malaysian court has found the police liable for the forced disappearance of a Christian pastor and awarded more than $7 million in damages to his family in a landmark ruling.