An Indian politician has been shot dead in the commercial capital, Mumbai. Gunmen opened fire on Baba Siddique, 66, near the office of his son, who is also a...

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people at a coal mine in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, according to local police.The attackers stormed the workers' accommodation at the Junaid...

BBCCo-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was tearful after it was announced Nihon Hidankyo had wonNihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors,...

South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her 2007 novel...

A Nepalese teenager has broken the world record for the youngest mountaineer to summit Earth’s 14 highest peaks.Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, stood atop Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma at about 06:05...

Getty ImagesShares had jumped by more than 10% as trading restarted after the Golden Week holidayA stock market rally in China has fizzled out as a highly-anticipated announcement on...

ReutersA massive blast rocked a road near the airport of Karachi, Pakistan's largest cityTwo Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide...

Video released by The Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, shows four elephants wading through flood waters as staff work to evacuate the animals to higher ground. Park...

India's foreign minister S Jaishankar will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Pakistan this month, his ministry has announced. This will be the first visit...

Getty ImagesThe stimulus measures sparked a stock market rally but economists are unsure they can fix deeper issuesAs China prepared to celebrate its Golden Week holiday and mark the...

The release of a blockbuster Pakistani film has been put on hold in India after officials in Delhi refused to give permission for its screening, the BBC has learnt....

Getty ImagesMech Dara has been honoured for his work by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist who has reported extensively on human trafficking...