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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

At least 13 people were injured Friday evening in a fire on a metro train in Hong Kong, police said.

Kristin Kagetsu left the United States in 2014 with an idea: to bring sanitary pads to India.

The son of Kim Jong Nam -- the murdered half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- has been seen for the first time since his father's death.

At least 19 people have died after a karaoke bar in Indonesia's West Papua was set ablaze following a brawl between rival gangs of youths in the area, police in the provincial capital of Sorong said on Tuesday.

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.

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke by phone Thursday evening, the first conversation between the two since Trump took office.

A German man has been beheaded by Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines after a deadline to pay his ransom passed, the Philippine government has said.

Nineteen fetuses were found buried near an unlicensed clinic by police investigating a woman's death in Sangli, western India, authorities said Sunday.

Srinivas Kuchibhotla, shot to death last month in a Kansas bar, shared a dream with many other Indians I know. His widow described it on Facebook a few days after his killing:

A military hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul has come under attack, with at least two people killed and seven others injured, according to government officials.

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea.

The King of Saudi Arabia certainly knows how to travel in style.

Ani Choying Drolma was not stabbed as a teenager by her Tibetan sculptor father in one of his many fits of rage.

Ma Jun, perhaps China's best-known environmentalist, thinks US President Donald Trump needs to visit China.