A man has been killed by a crocodile at a river crossing in Australia's Northern Territory.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on Muslim countries to lead international action over the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims.
Thousands of people in India's southern Tamil Nadu state are protesting against a ban on bullfighting.
Indonesian activists are lobbying for a zoo accused of starving its animals, including sun bears, to be shut down.
A court in South Korea has refused a request by prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong, who has been accused of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
An Australian woman and her three sons have been rescued after spending a freezing night on a mountain in Japan.
The two leading app stores both experienced a tilt towards Asia in 2016, according to an annual study.
An Australia Day advert featuring two girls in hijabs in front of an Australian flag has been removed from a Melbourne street after threats were made to the billboard company. The Victoria state government said the company, QMS, received a series of "abusive and threatening" complaints.
Two teenagers have died while taking selfies on railway tracks in the Indian capital, Delhi.
An Indian hospital is building a special facility so that an Egyptian woman, believed to be the world's heaviest at 500kg (1,102lb), can soon undergo weight reduction surgery.
If you are a fan of Indian food, you must have come across the hugely popular masala dosa, which is a type of rice pancake with a potato filling.
A court in Pakistan has stayed the execution of a schizophrenic man who was due to be hanged next week, a rights group says.
The grandson of late Indian musician Ustad Bismillah Khan has been arrested for stealing and selling five instruments belonging to the maestro.
A row has broken out between the Vatican and the Knights of Malta, an ancient Catholic order, after a top official was sacked over a contraception scandal.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed that five of its officials were killed in a bomb attack in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
Indian police have seized more than 6,000 freshwater turtles from poachers who planned to smuggle them out of the country.
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded in Bali after Indonesia said Tigerair did not have permission to operate some flights to Australia.
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