A nude sketching class aims to help Japan's middle-aged virgins by allowing them to spend time with a real female body.

Australian authorities are working to confirm reports that two of the country's most notorious terrorists have been killed fighting for ISIS in Iraq, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says.

Dozens are reported dead after a boat carrying 189 people capsizes in the central Philippines.

The latest report into the February TransAsia crash that killed 43 confirms that the captain mistakenly switched off the working engine after the other lost power.

The propeller wasn't working on one of the engines of the Indonesian military transport plane that crashed this week, killing at least 135 people, authorities said Thursday.

An Afghan appellate court has overturned the death sentences of four men who were convicted in a brutal mob killing of a woman who authorities say had been falsely accused of burning the Quran, a judge with knowledge of the decision told CNN on condition of anonymity Thursday.

Same-sex marriage isn't legal in China, but that didn't deter Li Tingting and her partner Teresa Xu.

Doctors, nurses, teachers and humanitarian workers have signed an open letter to the government, challenging a new bill that could put whistleblowers in jail for disclosing the conditions of detention centers.

A second person badly burned by the fireball that engulfed a crowd at a water park in Taiwan over the weekend has died from his injuries, local media reported Thursday.

Defending champion Japan advanced to the Women's World Cup soccer final with a 2-1 victory Wednesday over England in a semifinal at Edmonton, Alberta.

Impact of financial turmoil on Shanghai -- where money rules supreme.

The trial of two 22-year-old Burmese migrants, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, accused of the murder of two British tourists on a Thai resort island last year, opens Wednesday in Koh Samui amid accusations of evidence mishandling, witness intimidation and possible coerced confessions.

A 21-year old college student was arrested Tuesday in Tangerang, Indonesia for a fake bomb threat that delayed a Sydney-bound Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore, according to CNN affiliate, CNN Indonesia.

The United States had its financial crisis the previous decade and Japan is just emerging from its two decades of virtually non-existent growth.

China's stock market may be crashing, imperiling China's and the world's economy, but the country's Internet is enjoying a thriving trade in black humor.