A Scottish Sikh activist who has been locked up in India for almost nine years without conviction has been granted bail.Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was arrested and detained...

Nepal plans to use a new study linking climate change to the deadly floods last month as the basis of a financial request from a United Nations fund.The BBC...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared in person at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he is due to be tried for alleged crimes against humanity.He...

The number of people aged 100 or more in Japan has exceeded 100,000 for the first time, according to the health ministry.Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677...

On Monday, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters that "narratives of threat, confrontation, and malicious competition serve only to disrupt the process of global AI governance and...

By the time Mingma G reached the next camp on K2, his team had not heard from the Broad Peak climbers. They didn't panic because climbers often turn off...

The Philippine Coast Guard says it has recovered 30 bodies from the wreckage of a ferry that caught fire this week, bringing the total death toll to 35. More...

Thai police have arrested a Buddhist monk on suspicion of embezzling 100 million baht ($3m; £2.2m) from his monastery, along with a suspected female accomplice he was filmed having...

Twenty-five people have been killed in a fire on a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked at a port in eastern China, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Of the 42...

North Korea has built a new two-storey uranium enrichment facility, the head of the world's nuclear watchdog said this week, calling it a cause for "serious concern".The new building...

Singapore's government says it will raise the annual salaries of its ministers and other office holders, including its prime minister who is the highest paid political leader in the...

Halim Perdanakusuma, a smaller airport that caters to civil and military flights, will also remain closed until then.Snaking queues formed at the departure halls in Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport...