At least nine police officers have been killed, and several are missing, after an attack by gunmen in Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province, a local government official has told BBC...

China has test-launched a long-range ballistic missile with a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean, hours after Australia signed a new defence pact with Fiji.Beijing called it a "routine...

Eala played tennis as a youngster with her brother and grandfather, telling BBC TV she "still can't keep up" with her older brother, even now.She first rose to prominence...

Others say substitutes such as soybeans or kidney beans, suggested by an Iskcon official, are not widely eaten in the state and may not be readily accepted by students.Some...

At least 32 people were killed and 16 others injured after an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine in south-western Pakistan.The bus was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar,...

Nine Buddhist monks were killed and several others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents' pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police...

Zhang Yadi, 23, also known as Tara, is supposed to be studying at a prestigious university in the UK.Instead she is believed to be in detention in China.In one...

The co-founder of super-app Gojek who became Indonesia's education minister has been sentenced to several years in jail.Nadiem Makarim, 41, was found guilty of corruption over a controversial laptop...

South Korea has unveiled plans for at least $880bn (£666bn) of investments to build out the country's chip manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the coming years.It is...

Beginning in 2007, he immersed himself in the Akhbarat-i Darbar-i Mualla (Newsletters of the Exalted Court), a vast collection preserved in archives across India and Britain.Working through more than...

Born in Saharsa district, Udit grew up moving across different parts of the state because of his father's work, absorbing folk traditions along the way.He says that at first,...

Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology firms as investors worried that recent jumps in share prices had gone too far.Trading on South...