The landmark UN report on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was released in South Korea yesterday after a week-long meeting of the 195-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Here are key findings, grounded in some 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies:

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North's nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main sticking points over an earlier denuclearisation pledge.

The Chinese head of Interpol resigns as Beijing announces he is under investigation for allegedly breaking domestic law, while his wife voicesconcern for his life following his disappearance.

In a rapidly growing world of internet users, Bangladesh has been ranked fifth largest internet using country in Asia.

Kim Jong Un has agreed to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump as soon as possible, Seoul said yesterday, after Washington's top diplomat held "productive" talks on denuclearisation with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang.

Poll dates were announced for five Indian states by the country's election commission yesterday, opening a long election season that

An Indian bus driver who let a monkey behind the wheel of his vehicle was suspended yesterday after a video of the incident went

Pakistani opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif was ordered jailed for 10 days yesterday after being arrested in a corruption case, his

Japanese troops stormed a beach in the Philippines yesterday in joint exercises with US and Filipino troops that officials said marked

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped to make progress on denuclearisation and a second US-North Korean summit as he

Interpol demanded an official "clarification" from China on the whereabouts of its missing police chief yesterday, after reports said he

Eight men with suspected terrorist links are rounded up in Malaysia for suspected activities that threatened national security.

As the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia is home to more than 800,000 mosques. Here are three of these unique places of worship.

A Seoul court jails former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges.

French police said yesterday they are probing the disappearance of the Chinese head of Interpol, who has reportedly been detained for questioning in his home country.

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing took to social media for the first time in months yesterday to apologise to fans and the Communist Party for tax evasion,

The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 yesterday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of "vast" unmet needs that have fuelled looting.

Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi's Minahasa regency emits a 4-kilometer column of ash, prompting authorities to raise the volcano's status to Level III (alert) of the four-level national volcano alert system.

Canada’s Parliament formally strips Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday replaced his defence minister in a cabinet reshuffle that otherwise left key government positions largely unchanged.