Katy WatsonAustralia correspondentReporting fromsouthern QueenslandWatch: Australia's east coast prepares for rare cycloneThe wind has been kicking up along the Gold Coast and so too has the swell. But while...

Japanese World Cup-winner and trailblazer Yuki Nagasato, who made history by playing for a senior men's team in 2020, has announced her retirement from football.The 37-year-old former Chelsea striker...

Laura BickerChina correspondentReutersWill talks take place between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping? "China will fight to the bitter end of any trade war," the foreign ministry spokesperson in Beijing...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades.At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more...

Sanjay Banoudha, a photojournalist, has been covering India's Kumbh Mela since the 1990s. This year the festival, which began on 13 January, ended on Wednesday. A lot has changed...

Indian Army via ReutersA rescue operation has been taking place in the mountain state of UttarakhandAt least four people have died and several others are missing after an avalanche...

The owners of a New Zealand volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, have had their conviction over the disaster thrown out by the country's High Court. Whakaari...

At least 40 Uyghurs have been deported to China, the Thai authorities have confirmed, despite warnings from rights groups that they face possible torture and even death. The group...

The parents of an eight-year-old diabetic girl in Australia who died after they denied her insulin for almost a week have each been sentenced to 14 years in jail...

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Telangana are racing against time to save eight construction workers trapped inside a tunnel for more than 72 hours. Around 50 workers...

New Zealand's commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned as a government minister after he "placed a hand" on a staff member's upper arm last week, in what he described...

BBC Eye InvestigationsBBC World ServiceBBCMumbai-based Aveo had been selling the addictive combination in West AfricaIndian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found...