Images have emerged of a US Navy F-35C stealth fighter crashing into the South China Sea earlier this week.

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.

For the first time, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has directly accused North Korea of murdering Kim Jong Nam.

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.

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

Egypt's Eman Ahmed, believed to be the world's heaviest woman, successfully underwent weight reduction surgery on Tuesday, doctors in India said.