South Korea has successfully test-fired two domestically built ballistic missiles that can hit all of North Korea, officials said, amid continuing animosity between the countries over the North’s push to bolster its nuclear and missile capabilities.
Five people have died and hundreds are missing after a cruise ship carrying 458 people capsized on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province.
Outrage on social media over an annual dog-eating festival in China has been growing every year - and this year it's trended across the world. Will the anger eventually end the practice of eating dog meat in China?
A ship carrying more than 450 people has sunk after being caught in a storm on the Yangtze River in southern China, according to state media.
A senior Chinese naval commander has claimed new islands his country is building in the South China Sea will benefit the region, while stressing that such activities “fall well within the scope of China’s sovereignty.”
The US has called for an "immediate and lasting halt" to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
China's top court said it has executed a primary school teacher found guilty of raping or sexually abusing 26 girls.
China is to focus on projecting its military presence beyond its borders at sea, according to a strategy document.
Eleven Afghan policemen have been sentenced to one year in prison for failing to protect a woman killed in Kabul in March.
A suicide bomb attack near the entrance of the international airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has killed at least three people, officials say.
The top performer, Singapore, had high levels of illiteracy into the 1960s, said Mr Schleicher, showing how much progress could be made.
Four Afghan men have been sentenced to death over a mob attack in which a woman was beaten to death after being falsely accused of burning the Koran.
More than 100 people are known to have died in a powerful earthquake that struck Nepal, wrecking many historic buildings, officials have said.
A former school principal in Japan says he paid for sex with more than 12,000 women -- some of them girls as young as 14 -- during repeated visits to the Philippines over more than a quarter of a century, according to police.
A family of seven drowned in a doomed attempt to rescue their daughter from a reservoir after they all fell in while forming a human chain to pull her out.
