Health and public safety concerns frame a grim international picture today. In Myanmar, the military government says detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met an International Committee of the Red Cross representative in a rare publicized contact with a foreign official since the 2021 coup, though key questions about her condition remain unanswered. Elsewhere, tragedy and infrastructure failures dominate: in Scotland, a man has been arrested after a nine-year-old girl died from injuries suffered at an industrial estate in Arbroath, while in Sydney two men were seriously hurt in a building collapse in Ultimo. In India, the death of disaster response worker Vikas Gore after his motorcycle struck a pothole on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway has sharpened anger over monsoon-damaged roads. And in Britain, a disturbing fraud case ended with a prison sentence for a man who kept his mother’s body in a freezer while claiming more than £78,000 in benefits.