When Akie Matsuzaki married Shinzo Abe, then a rising political aide, in 1987, she followed a path well trodden by Japanese wives and gave up her job at the country's largest advertising agency.

Two air force fighter jets escorted a Singapore Airlines plane traveling from San Francisco to Changi Airport after a passenger made a hoax bomb threat.

For just over a week, CNN's Will Ripley, Justin Robertson and Tim Schwarz stepped inside the reclusive state of North Korea.

If North Korea was indeed behind the public killing of Kim Jong Nam with the highly toxic VX nerve agent, it was a blatant breach of international law on chemical weapons.

Once one of the world's most powerful travel documents, the might of the United States passport has been diminished during the pandemic. With US Covid-19 cases now past the 32.4 million mark, some nations continue to view vacationers warily even as more Americans get vaccinated.

A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children's books deemed to be seditious, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory.

Mohammad Jalehar was a teenager in the 1990s when he heard warnings about looming food and water shortages in Singapore.

North Korea has passed a new law declaring itself a nuclear weapons state in a move leader Kim Jong Un says is "irreversible."

A bomb exploded during a protest in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 59 more, according to government spokesman Malik Ahmad Khan.

In 2001, the North Korean regime, then headed by Kim Jong Il, was dealt an embarrassing if minor setback.

Quicker. Smarter. More dangerous.

A second woman has been arrested over the alleged murder of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Malaysian police said.