At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

Nearly 1,000 Indians are still stranded in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy, which are among the worst-hit areas during the ongoing Russian invasion.

An Indian TV news anchor’s outburst during a live talk show on Ukraine crisis went viral where he was yelling at the wrong guest the whole time.

A suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people, hospital officials said.

A seal wearing a helmet with an antenna might look unusual, but eight Weddell seals, each with a 580g monitoring device on their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers survey the waters under the thick ice sheet in Antarctica.

Nepal’s parliament approved a US infrastructure grant of $500 million which critics say undermines the Himalayan nation’s sovereignty as protesters opposed to the proposed funds clashed with police, officials and witnesses said late on Sunday.

The Taliban have been carrying out extensive house searches around the Afghan capital, according to residents, a policy the group’s spokesman said was to detect criminal activity but that some Western diplomats said had targeted ordinary citizens.

The world should not allow the one million Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh to be the cause of instability in the region, said Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki today.

Jobless, debt ridden, and struggling to feed his children, Nooruddin felt he had no choice but to sell a kidney -- one of a growing number of Afghans willing to sacrifice an organ to save their families.

The Taliban have clamped down on Afghans leaving the country as, separately, their forces continue a massive security sweep, going house-to-house across the capital Monday in a "clearing operation".

Afghanistan’s main universities yesterday reopened six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned to now-segregated classes.

India has sent 50 trucks carrying 2,500 tonnes of wheat for crisis-hit Afghanistan after Pakistan gave “exceptional” permission for the shipment to pass through,

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Moscow yesterday to push for the construction of a long-delayed, multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline to be built in

Indian banks have recovered Rs 18,000 crore from fugitives Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, who are accused of serious economic offences including money laundering, the country's Supreme Court was told today.

As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of many young women who feel that the country’s politics has become dominated by discrimination against women, even outright misogyny.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two neighbours.

Women working in Afghan government departments must cover up -- even with a blanket if necessary -- or they may lose their jobs, the Taliban’s religious police said yesterday.

UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said yesterday.

UN rights experts have called for an end to “misogynistic and sectarian” online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment.

Hong Kong’s population must undergo three rounds of compulsory coronavirus testing, the city’s leader said yesterday, as she confirmed mainland Chinese officials were stepping up oversight of the financial hub’s response to its worst outbreak yet.