A court in India's troubled northeastern region has freed a female activist who has been on hunger strike for 14 years in protest against special powers given to the military to combat rebels, her lawyer said Friday.

Bloodstains and bullet marks tell a tale of horror inside the auditorium and classrooms of the Peshawar school attacked by the Taliban in Pakistan.

The man who captained AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lived in a picturesque neighborhood in the suburbs of Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city.

North Korea has celebrated the end of a rare political meeting by unveiling what appears to be a missile designed to be fired from a submarine.

Peter Bergen says the leader slain by Pakistani forces played a key role in foiled plot to bomb N.Y. subways.

In the past 30 years, Sanduk Ruit has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa, and taught his rapid-fire technique to countless other eye surgeons in parts of the world as isolated as North Korea and Tibet.

Gunmen attacked a bus in Karachi on Wednesday, killing 41 people, Pakistani authorities said.

Irawadee Thawornbut is the 16-year-old founder of Sandee for Good, an online marketplace for donors to order and pay for goods to be delivered to nonprofits.

When it comes to desirable post-pandemic travel destinations, Hong Kong would be an obvious choice thanks to its capable handling of Covid-19 outbreaks, which has so far limited infections to just 1,300 cases in the city of 7.5 million.

At least eight people were killed after shootings at three different spas in the Atlanta area Tuesday.

Climbers rejoiced when Nepal decided to reopen its side of Mount Everest this year, but reports suggest even the world's highest peak isn't safe from the spread of Covid-19.

Prisons in developing countries can usually be characterized as hazardous and chaotic places for offenders. Due to limited resources, the prisons are left to be run by ruthless gangs.

A historic rail link bolsters trade between China and Spain.

As the U.S. gets ready to blame the Sony hack on the secretive Asian state, one analyst says "we underestimated N. Korea."

A 29-year-old U.S. citizen denounces his home country at a press conference in Pyongyang after entering the country illegally. His mother says he's mentally unstable.

Cardi B famously raps "Cardi don't need more press," but if that's the case, she may want to chill on Twitter.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, leaving around 20,000 people dead or missing and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. Five years on, the country is still dealing with the aftermath.

The pilot had just completed a commercial flight from the United States to Covid-struck India when he received the news his colleague had died of the virus.