The top official in Indian-administered Kashmir defends the response to the region's worst flooding in decades, which have killed more than 200.

Fiji's coup leader and former military ruler Frank Bainimarama faces voters in the first election since he seized power in 2006.

The UN brokers a deal on rebuilding in the Gaza Strip, giving roles to the Palestinian Authority and private sector, its top Mid-East envoy says.

A man from Rochester, New York has been charged with trying to recruit people to join Islamic State and to shoot people in the US, say prosecutors.

China's President Xi Jinping makes his first official visit to India, with a focus on improving trade ties and resolving the decades-old border dispute.

South Korean authorities say they have detained an American man they believe was trying to swim to North Korea.

A key Ukrainian rebel leader tells the BBC a new law granting self-rule to parts of the east will not sway the demand for independence.

Prominent Uighur academic Ilham Tohti is going on trial for separatism in China's far western region of Xinjiang.