Indonesia resumes search for missing AirAsia plane
Indonesia resumed a sea and aerial search at dawn for an AirAsia plane that went missing in the Java Sea with 162 people on board.
No escape for those stuck in Malaysian 'forced labour'
Toiling 12 hours a day in a Malaysian electronics factory amid broken promises on wages and working conditions, Manu dreams of returning to his poor Nepal village.
Sea of blue mourns slain New York cop
Tens of thousands of officers paid tribute to one of their own at a New York funeral, as emotions ran high over recent protests against police violence.
Thousands protest in Mexico City over missing students
Some three thousand people took to the streets of downtown Mexico City, three months after the disappearance and likely massacre of 43 students.
Prisoners swapped in dark of Ukraine frontline
The two warring sides lined up the prisoners some 100 metres apart on an isolated stretch of highway in the no-man's land between their frontlines.
Prayers and tears as Asia mourns tsunami dead 10 years on
Tearful memorials were being held across tsunami-hit nations for the 220,000 people who perished when giant waves decimated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean a decade ago.
PlayStation, Xbox service in US goes down on Christmas
Online hackers have taken credit for an online service outage of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox game consoles.
Russia battles to contain Black Sea oil spill
A Russian Black Sea city declared a state of emergency after a burst pipeline spewed oil into the landlocked water body.
Thousands flee deadly violence in India's Assam
More than 2,000 people have fled their homes in the restive Indian state of Assam after separatist rebels killed dozens of villagers, some of them children.