A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning. No casualties or damage were immediately reported.

Five years after regaining power, the hard-line Islamist regime has formalized a women’s rights rollback in a sprawling penal code that experts say makes it almost impossible for women to escape abuse.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Saturday visited a shrine to the nation's war dead, which Asian ​neighbours see as a symbol of wartime aggression, ‌as Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War Two.

Artworks by Henri Mattise, Paul Cezanne and Pierre-August Renoir stolen in two separate cases have been recovered in Brazil and Italy.

The West Bank has become more dangerous for Palestinians as Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has approved more than 100 new settlements. Extremist settlers routinely enter Palestinian towns,

Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election was suspended Friday and then restarted hours later under heightened security after the electoral commission said there had been attacks against some polling station officials and some ballot papers had been stolen.

As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents stressed that the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.

The Latvian military said a drone that entered the country's airspace overnight was shot down by NATO Baltic Air Policing jets.