Opposition calls in India for a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices have left roads empty and businesses closed in some cities.

The largest group of lawyers in the Philippines has asked the country’s courts to resist 'creeping incursions' on its independence and warned of judicial 'chaos' after the president voided an amnesty granted to an opposition senator and ordered his arrest.

Iraq’s embattled prime minister Haider al-Abadi has arrived in the southern city of Basra, where week-long protests over poor public services and unemployment have left at least 15 people dead.

China’s government says it will retaliate if Washington goes ahead with more tariff increases following President Donald Trump’s comment that he was considering extending penalties to more Chinese imports.

The winner of the 1995 Miss Universe crown has died following a long-term illness.

Dozens of Yemeni detainees, including some tortured at the hands of Emirati forces, have started a hunger strike to protest their continued detention despite a prosecutor’s decision to release them.

Two times a day, Kasereka Mulanda comes to a new kind of Ebola treatment center to visit his wife, easing the isolation of a highly contagious disease.

Iranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

A 24-year-old man appeared in an Australian court on Monday charged with the stabbing murders of three young girls, their mother and grandmother, whose bodies were found in a Perth home almost a week after their deaths.

Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 102 people, including military officers, over their suspected links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who is blamed by Ankara for a failed coup attempt in 2016.