United States airline JetBlue will make the first direct commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century next Wednesday, the Cuban authorities said on Thursday (Aug 25).
The Indian government has moved to ban commercial surrogacy, sparking fears that the multibillion-dollar industry could go underground.
The tone of the United States presidential campaign turned darker on Thursday (Aug 25), with Democrat Hillary Clinton skewering billionare Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labelled her a racist whose family foundation was a "criminal enterprise".
Thousands of police reservists will patrol outside French schools next week as children return to the classroom after a summer overshadowed by two militant attacks, the government announced on Tuesday (Aug 23).
Former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage appeared on stage at a rally with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Jackson, Mississippi, and said that if he were a United States citizen, he "wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me".
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has derided the United Nations as useless and threatened to leave the global body as he unleashed a torrent of abuse in response to calls from UN human rights campaigners for him to end extrajudicial killings that have blighted his war on crime.
Loose monetary policy should support growth in Asia in coming months, economists say, but regional growth is likely to be negatively affected by a slowdown in China and a possible fallout from Brexit.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong drew a standing ovation from a relieved audience when he resumed his National Day Rally speech last night, after he was suddenly taken ill while addressing the nation on live television.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are scheduled to appear on the same stage early next month at a "commander-in-chief forum" devoted to national security, military affairs and veterans issues.
All-night services finally begin on the London Underground on Friday (Aug 19), after being delayed for months by a dispute with workers and a lack of political will according to the city's mayor.
Two bomb attacks blamed on Kurdish militants killed seven members of the security forces and wounded 224 people in southeast Turkey on Thursday (Aug 18), officials and security sources said, in a renewed escalation of violence across the region.
A Thai military court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people amid a massive hunt for those responsible for last week's wave of bombings and arson attacks in southern resort destinations.
The son of Malaysia's former finance minister Daim Zainuddin was made a bankrupt last week over some $1.65 million in debts that he owed to Maybank Kim Eng Securities.
The New Zealand government launched an inquiry on Thursday (Aug 18) into the contamination of a regional water supply that has left thousands of people sick with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Looking remarkably unlined for his claimed 120 years, an Indian monk who says he is the oldest man to have ever lived puts his longevity down to no sex or spices, and daily yoga.
Vietnam has banned players of the game Pokemon Go from the offices of its government and ruling Communist Party, besides defence locations, as thousands of its citizens get swept up in the frenzy to capture virtual cartoon characters.
Donald Trump on Wednesday (Aug 17) received his first classified intelligence briefing, a privilege reserved for presidential candidates from the two main political parties.
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