North Korea has carried out another ballistic missile test days after a new president took office in the South. The missile was launched near north-western Kusong,...
India’s Supreme Court has formally opened hearings into a number of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam. The court said it would...
South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-in has been sworn in, vowing to address the economy and relations with the North in his first speech as president....
Liberal candidate Moon Jae-in has claimed victory in South Korea’s presidential election. Mr Moon favours greater dialogue with North Korea, in a change to current South...
The head of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in a military raid, US and Afghan officials have said. He died...
North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the state. Kim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science...
At least 200 schoolgirls have been hospitalised in the Indian capital Delhi after a gas leak from a container depot, police have said. The pupils had...
A manhunt is under way in Indonesia’s Sumatria island after scores of prisoners escaped from an overcrowded jail. Hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed near...
Four men convicted in the brutal fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 will be hanged after India’s Supreme Court...
North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. A North Korean referred to only as “Kim”...
Veteran warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has returned to the Afghan capital, eight months after signing a peace deal with the government. Mr Hekmatyar, an Islamist warlord accused...