A crater on Mars is named after one of the villages worst hit by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

A Tokyo suburb will help women cover the cost of freezing their eggs in a pilot programme aimed at tackling the nation's declining birth rate. The Japanese city of Urayasu, about 14 kilometers (9 miles) east of Tokyo, is allocating 90 million yen ($850,000) over three years to fund the research project.

Alarmed by the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February, one of the world's biggest ever cyber heists, cybersecurity is among the top concerns discussed at Singapore's annual Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit. For the first time, the conference allots one of its six special sessions to cybersecurity.

China rebuffs US pressure to curb its activity in the South China Sea, restating its sovereignty over most of the disputed territory and saying it "has no fear of trouble".

Astronomers think, Kepler-62f, which they are calling “Super Earth”, is capable of sustaining life.

The search has resumed for a Japanese seven-year-old boy who was left by his parents in woods in a remote area of Hokkaido as a punishment.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning, shocking some of his allies and stoking fears of further strains in the multi-ethnic country.

The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is deliberating on its proposed ‘model’ women’s protection bill, which allows a husband to ‘lightly’ beat his wife 'if needed' and prohibits mixing of the genders in schools, hospitals and offices.

Six Bangladeshi workers detained in Singapore last month are charged with financing terrorism. Their goal was to set up an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the IS in Iraq and Syria.

More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to Manila - yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race for re-useable spacecraft.

“When the tide came in, these kids started swimming. But not like I had seen before. They were more underwater than above water, they had their eyes wide open – they were like little dolphins.”

The New Horizons space probe is bringing new images of a remnant of the early solar system, after its historic brush with Pluto last summer, reports ABC News.

Mitsubishi Motors announces its president, Tetsuro Aikawa, will step down in the wake of the company's test-fixing scandal.

Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte yesterday vowed to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-

Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.

NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere for the first time in 40 years, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth, reports Science Alert.

Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte wins the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.

Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was yesterday heading for a huge win in the Philippine presidential elections, according to a poll monitor, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals.

A transit of Mercury over the disc of the Sun will take place this afternoon and be visible from Bangladesh.