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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

North Korean state media has released images purporting to show last week's missile launches with a warning that the so-called "reckless military hysteria" of the United States and its allies is moving the Korean peninsula towards "unstable confrontation."

Two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur airport have been charged with murder.

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.