The attack clearly demonstrates the conflict at the heart of the Pakistani military and political establishment, half of which not only sympathises with the Taliban’s aims, but actively supports its activities.

Uber has been banned from operating in Delhi after the alleged rape of a customer by one of the taxi service's drivers.

Andrew Bogut has been ruled out again for Golden State with a knee injury.

A report by European election observers suggests that more than 2 million votes - about a quarter of those cast - in the Afghan presidential runoff came from polling stations with voting irregularities.

Five-year-old Julianna Snow, whose story about confronting terminal illness touched millions, has died at home in her mother's arms.

An ultra-nationalist Communist Party propaganda video with slick production values has gone wildly viral on the Chinese internet – while leaving foreign observers bemused.

Western officials say Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has declared "a state of lawlessness" after a bomb ripped through a popular night market in his home southern city of Davao, killing 14 people and wounding 67 others.

Football's international players' union wants FIFA to investigate why the Western Sydney Wanderers-Cruz Azul CWC match went ahead.

Gul Ahmed Said killed ten of his relatives in north-western Pakistan over a marriage dispute on the weekend, just months after he killed his own parents and two brothers, police officials said.