Teachers told the teenage girl to dye her naturally-brown hair black to comply with school rules.

Female MPs will be invited to board meetings - but cannot talk - days after an Olympics sexism row.

MJ Akbar, a former editor, was the most high-profile figure to be named in India's #MeToo movement.

Protesters have parked vehicles across key junctions in Yangon while a large demonstration grows.

Ri Sol-ju joined her husband at a concert on Tuesday to mark the birthday of his late father.

China's demand for cars and luxury goods from Europe bounced back in 2020 as its economy recovered.

The "circuit-breaker" lockdown was designed to crush a coronavirus breach from hotel quarantine.

Who is Nodeep Kaur, the young woman whose arrest has caused global outrage?

A police raid unearths more than 500,000 indecent images of children after an international inquiry.

Fleeing from North Korea can be a traumatic ordeal. Here's how defectors start new lives in the South.

It is unclear as to what, if any, data was stolen, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.

A court in Dhaka convicts a group of Islamist militants of the 2015 attack on a secular blogger.

Serena Williams produces a stunning performance to beat second seed Simona Halep and set up an Australian Open semi-final with Naomi Osaka.

The man was tracked through the de-militarized zone by South Korean troops for three hours.

The bus veered off a bridge in central India after the driver lost control, witnesses say.

Saline solution and mineral water were being hawked as coronavirus jabs, and some sent overseas.

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern accuses Australia of "abdicating its responsibilities" over the woman.

A former adviser for the ruling Liberal Party alleges she was raped by a man in a minister's office.

A tussle over an Indian grocery store pits Amazon and Reliance against each other in court.

The junta steps up efforts to stifle opposition to its 1 February coup.