At least 17 people have died and another 40 have been injured in a train crash in Pakistan, local media said.
Dozens of miners are confirmed dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
Iraqi special forces are now less than 1.5km from the eastern outskirts of Mosul and are preparing to enter the city held by Islamic State fighters.
Eight prisoners have escaped from a jail in the central Indian city of Bhopal after killing a guard and scaling the wall using bed sheets.
Philippine anti-narcotics officers gunned down a town mayor and nine of his men in a clash in one of the bloodiest operations since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a crackdown on illegal drugs.
At least 59 cadets and guards have been killed in an attack by militants on a police college in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.
At least 20 people have died after a fire broke out in a hospital in eastern India, local police say.
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years on the throne, the palace says.
At least 22 people were killed in eastern China when residential buildings collapsed early Monday morning local time, state media reported.
Eight people have been killed after a series of unexplained building collapses in eastern China and there are fears the death toll could rise as rescuers searched through the rubble.
Indian police are investigating the parents of a 13-year-old girl who died last week after undertaking a religious fast for 68 days.
The world's largest radio telescope has began operating in southwestern China, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
Unable to afford a proper home after getting married, a Chinese couple moved into a mountain cave near the city of Nanchong and have been living there for the past 54 years.
A TV journalist in China who was photographed wearing sunglasses and holding an umbrella to shelter from the sun has been suspended from her job.
Japanese millennials just aren't having sex.
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