In China, bribery is known colloquially as "tea money" and nearly everyone from local businesses to foreign multinationals has usually had a brush with it.

Three attacks by the Taliban in last 48 hours left at least two American soldiers and 18 Afghan soldiers dead, officials said Saturday, in what looks set to be a particularly bloody weekend in Afghanistan.

Seventeen people have died and 91 more are missing in a landslide in Indonesia, the country's disaster management agency says.

The man suspected of running the pro-ISIS Twitter account @ShamiWitness was arrested Saturday, police in the Indian city of Bangalore said on the force's Facebook page.

"We'll be back" banners and posters proclaimed on the 75th and final day of the pro-democracy protests that have upended Hong Kong.