Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse.

As a young man, Fred Chin spent years imprisoned on a craggy island off Taiwan.

North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile on Thursday, that Japan said flew over its main island, landing in the Pacific Ocean, and South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said landed in waters off the east of the peninsula.

Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast Saturday that killed at least eight people in southern Afghanistan.

At least 15 people were killed and dozens more wounded Wednesday in two separate attacks in the Afghan capital, police officials told CNN.

A freak electrocution in southern India killed at least 11 people, including two children, when their vehicle snagged overhead transmission lines and burst into flames as they rode in a religious procession, authorities said on Wednesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the country's ballistic missile launches Monday, according to North Korea's state news agency KCNA.