A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant and has been refused an abortion is at the centre of a media storm in India. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey...
North Korea has dismissed an offer of talks from the South as “insincere”. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha had raised the issue with her North...
A fugitive Chinese billionaire who had vowed to expose corrupt Chinese officials in the upper reaches of the central leadership may have requested political asylum in...
An Australian nurse has been jailed for 18 months in Cambodia for providing commercial surrogacy services. Tammy Davis-Charles was arrested in Phnom Penh in November last...
A popular Indian folk song with many satirical takes has gone viral in Pakistan after a group parodied it to comment on recent political turmoil. Karachi...
Archaeologists at Cambodia’s celebrated Angkor Wat temple complex have unearthed a large statue believed to date back to the late 12th century. The 2m (6.5ft) sandstone...
Afghan police say a suicide attack has taken place outside the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul. Gunfire was heard following several explosions in the central...
Phillippine police have killed a city mayor, his wife and 10 others during a series of pre-dawn anti-drug raids in the south, officials said. Reynaldo Parojinog,...
Shehbaz Sharif will likely assume the role of Pakistan’s prime minister after his brother Nawaz Sharif resigned from the office on Friday. The ruling Pakistan Muslim...
The brother of ousted Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif has been lined up to take over as prime minister. The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) anointed Shahbaz...
Sri Lanka has signed a $1.1bn deal with China for the control and development of the southern deep-sea port of Hambantota. The deal had been delayed...