Chief of People's Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti is chosen as the next Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Hindu temples in southern India began turning away devotees wearing western clothes after a court order banning jeans and shorts as "inappropriate" for spiritual worship came into effect.

Families of those killed in an AirAsia plane crash in Indonesia demanded yesterday the airline apologise for negligence after a probe showed faulty equipment

Dozens of people were feared dead in Myanmar after a landslide hit a jade mining region, workers at a local mining firm said, the second such incident in just over a month.

The death toll from a ferry disaster in central Indonesia has climbed to 20, an official said yesterday, though nearly 60 people remain missing five days after

Thai authorities must step up witness protection for a major human trafficking trial with the accused including an army general and one investigator fleeing the country fearing for his life, activists said on Thursday as the first witnesses gave evidence. The case includes 88 defendants allegedly involved with lucrative smuggling gangs that were trafficking Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar, holding them for ransom in jungle camps before granting onward passage to Malaysia.

Rescuers scrabble through the aftermath of a huge three-day-old landslide discover two people alive in the mud as China's cabinet announced a probe into the country's latest industrial accident.

More than 50 Indonesian companies are being punished for their role in causing the haze that blanketed South East Asia earlier this year.

Two children have become the first victims found following a ferry accident in central Indonesia, an official says, as search and rescue teams continue scouring the rough seas for survivors.

UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.

Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar's parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said yesterday.

Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say they have arrested two key members of the "Indian branch" of al-Qaeda.

Typhoon Melor causes heavy flooding and kills at least 9 people, authorities say.

Malala Yousafzai condemns a call by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the US.

Typhoon Melor carves through the central Philippines bringing heavy rain and strong winds that left millions without power and at least three people dead, officials say.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej makes a rare public appearance, amid concerns for his ailing health.

Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.

Myanmar's feared former junta leader Than Shwe has endorsed his one-time nemesis Aung San Suu Kyi as a "future leader" of the

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks yesterday with the president and military chief about the handover of power, the first such discussions since her opposition party's election triumph.

Two prominent Thai opposition leaders were detained by soldiers yesterday as they tried to visit a public park at the centre of a corruption scandal that has