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China's Xi Jinping began a two-day trip to neighbouring Mongolia with trade high on the agenda against a backdrop of resource nationalism.
Nearly five percent of Japanese adults are addicted to gambling, a rate up to five times that of most other nations, according to a study.
Turkey's ruling party meets to choose a new leader and premier to succeed incoming president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
An Indonesian court was expected to uphold Joko Widodo's victory in last month's presidential election.
A new underwater hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had a "reasonable chance" of finding the plane.
She's already a leading name in Indian fashion, with customers ranging from top Bollywood stars to teenage girls on pocket money.
A huge landslide that engulfed homes in western Japan killed at least 27 people and left another 10 missing.
A Chinese state-run newspaper called on Beijing to "teach Canberra a lesson" after Clive Palmer labelled the Communist government "mongrels"
A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised as the world's oldest male.
Israel and Palestinian militants resumed fire across the Gaza border, sparking panic across the war-torn enclave and halting truce talks.
Opposition politician Imran Khan and a populist cleric led protesters marching on parliament in a high-stakes bid to depose the prime minister.
An expedition from Kazakhstan has compared the way Kashgar is now with the way it was described 150 years ago.
A number of asylum-seeker children held in Australian mainland detention centres are to be released.
Harun is one of Malaysia's last "fish listeners," and he and his apprentice son are believed to be the only active practitioners of this art.
Clive Palmer has labelled the Chinese government "mongrels" who "shoot their own people" in a televised tirade that was criticised by Canberra.
Prime Minister John Key predicted a "close" and "hard fought" New Zealand general election next month.
The death toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip rose above 2,000, the health ministry said as more people injured in over a month of fighting.
Japan's government said it was investigating a video that appears to show a kidnapped Japanese man being interrogated by Syrian militants.
Eight foreigners and five Indonesians were rescued two days after their tourist boat sank during a storm in the archipelago.
Their marriages were arranged for cash, but some of the Vietnamese women say they are living happily ever after.
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