At least 60 children have died at a public hospital in northern India, officials say, amid allegations that the oxygen supply was cut over unpaid bills....
China’s President Xi Jinping has urged Donald Trump and North Korea to avoid “words and actions” that worsen tensions, state media say. Mr Trump and North...
A suspected unexploded bomb has been found at the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The US is thought to have dropped the 89cm-long...
A verbal warning from U.S. President Donald Trump threatening “fire and fury” against North Korea, and subsequent remarks from Pyongyang to create an “enveloping fire” around...
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...
The US government is not seeking a regime change in North Korea, the secretary of state says, amid tensions over Pyongyang’s weapons programme. “We’re not your...
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...