A Bangladesh cafe has reopened, six months after Islamic extremists killed 22 people during a hostage siege.
India's foreign minister has criticised online retail giant Amazon after its Canadian website was found to be selling doormats featuring the Indian flag.
Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong is being questioned at the prosecutor's office in Seoul as a suspect in South Korea's biggest political corruption scandal.
Government agencies in the Philippines have been ordered to offer free contraceptives to an estimated six million women who cannot obtain them.
India's home minister has ordered a probe into three videos posted by a soldier, claiming troops on the border with Pakistan got poor quality food.
Japanese scientists believe they have established the identity of a "missing element" within the Earth's core.
Hundreds of people have held protests across Pakistan to demand the authorities trace four activists who have gone missing in the past week.
Clare Hollingworth, the veteran British war correspondent who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland, has died in Hong Kong at the age of 105.
Prosecutors have charged relatives of former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with conspiracy to bribe a government official.
A Buddhist monk in South Korea has died after setting himself on fire in protest over a 2015 deal struck with Japan on wartime sex slaves.
Dozens of people have been killed in a series of militant attacks on Tuesday throughout Afghanistan.
Indian YouTuber Sumit Verma is in trouble after posting a video in which he randomly walks up to women in public places, kisses them and runs away.
Pakistan has successfully tested its first submarine-launched cruise missile, the country's military says.
A girl aged 10 who worked as a maid for a Pakistani judge shows signs of having been tortured, a medical board says.
Hollywood musical La La Land has broken the record for the most Golden Globe Awards, winning seven prizes.
Soul singer Ray BLK has topped the BBC's Sound Of 2017 list, which aims to predict the most exciting new music for the year ahead.
At least 12 people have died and many villages been submerged after heavy rains caused severe flooding in southern Thailand.
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