China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of every five people on Earth — China's National Bureau of Statistics announced that its population shrank in 2022, falling by roughly 850,000 people.
At least 59 people have been killed by a suicide bombing that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Hopes of finding survivors from Nepal's worst air disaster in decades are fading, police say.
Chinese officials must share more real-time information on Covid in the country as infections surge, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
China is lifting its most severe Covid policies - including forcing people into quarantine camps - just a week after landmark protests against the strict controls.
Protests against Covid restrictions which erupted over the weekend appear to have died down, as a heavy police presence is reported in Chinese cities.
Many of those killed and injured in a major earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java were children, rescuers say, as the death toll soars to 268.
Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been shot and wounded in the leg in an attack on his protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad.
North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries' maritime border for the first time since the peninsula's split.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is set to confirm President Xi Jinping for a historic third term as its leader and unveil members of its all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PSC).
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.