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Asia
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years since devastating...
Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of...
The world's sixth 'Blue Zone': Why Singapore values both...
When it comes to longevity, few places in the world have seen such a drastic jump...
Hong Kong offers rewards for arrest of six activists abroad
Hong Kong police have offered rewards of HK$1m (£103,000; $129,000) for information...
Palestinian Christians struggle to find hope at Christmas
The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider...
Dozens killed as passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan
Dozens of people have died after a passenger plane crashed with 67 people on board...
Chinese man in school attack gets suspended death sentence
A Chinese court has handed a suspended death sentence to a man who injured over...
A man's suicide leads to clamour around India's dowry law
On the night of 9 December, a 34-year-old Indian man killed himself. Next to his...
Saudi warnings about market attack suspect were ignored
The Saudi authorities, I am told, are currently working flat out to collate everything...
A dam ignited rare Tibetan protests. They ended in beatings...
Hundreds of Tibetans protesting against a Chinese dam were rounded up in a harsh...
How the lives of the few child amputees allowed to leave...
To find safety from Gaza, you need first to become the victim of a catastrophic...
Inside the abandoned homes of Assad's ruthless enforcers
Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, wanted...
Hope returns to eastern Aleppo - which Assad forces all...
Syrian and Russian forces unleashed all they could on eastern Aleppo. For four years...
Court steps in to sort Indian couple's three-year baby...
It is not unusual for couples to argue over naming their baby, but it rarely ends...
Don't underestimate North Korean troops in Russia, ex-soldiers...
What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing,...
Soldier-spies in Myanmar help pro-democracy rebels make...
The once formidable Myanmar military is cracking from within - riddled with spies...