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The latest information on the people affected by the deadly eruption on New Zealand’s White Island.

A person who was being treated in hospital in Australia dies, as two bodies remain missing.

Why mainland China insists there is a sinister hand of foreign meddling in the protests.

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nephew is in hot water after the emergence of a video showing him taking part in a lawyers’ attack on a hospital. Opposition parties allege that Hassan Niazi is being protected by his uncle.

Arsenal distance the club from comments made by midfielder Mesut Ozil on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.

Few details about the test have been released, but it is the second at the same site within a week.

The UK, US and Canada have warned people visiting India’s north-east to “exercise caution”.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Bangkok to protest against the banning of a prominent opposition party that has challenged the government of former military ruler Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Hong Kong’s chief executive arrived in Beijing, her first visit since the dramatic defeat of the pro-establishment bloc in recent local elections. Speculation is growing that Lam will be asked to step down.

Pyongyang says it successfully completed another test ahead of a US envoy’s visit this weekend. Kim Jong Un has threatened a "Christmas gift" for the US if an agreement on sanctions isn’t reached by the new year.

Patrick Reed’s caddie is thrown out of the Presidents Cup in Melbourne after he “shoved” a fan who had been directing abuse at his player.

Fire warnings are in place for many areas including Perth, where temperatures are set to remain high.

The once-persecuted Nobel peace laureate has been defending Myanmar against genocide allegations.

The US president has described the first part of a bilateral trade agreement as an "amazing deal." But Chinese officials were cautious, saying they hope "both sides will abide by the agreement."

Rahul Gandhi is now under attack, but PM Narendra Modi has also invoked rape to win elections.

During the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, a large number of civilian employees helped the German army. For some, the job became life-threatening. They had to flee, but they do not feel wanted in Germany.

He was meant to be a children’s character, but he’s gained a huge fan base amongst millennials.

Rohingya refugee Hasina Begun says Myanmar troops set her village alight and opened fire.

The bodies of six people who perished in a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island have been retrieved and taken to a navy ship offshore. Families left distraught by the tragedy had pleaded for a swift recovery.

As vast areas burn, Scott Morrison is being accused of playing down the impact of climate change.

A number of patients are believed to have died after a protest by lawyers at a Lahore hospital turned violent.

The Bollywood star has an acting career which has spanned more than three decades.

India’s move to exclude Muslims from seeking a fast track to citizenship is blatantly discriminatory. It will not be long before the fundamental pluralistic character of India is altered, says DW’s Debarati Guha.

Two Indian citizens living in Germany have been found guilty of spying on Kashmiris and Sikhs for India’s intelligence agency. The couple have been sentenced to suspended jail terms and large fines.

The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil flies close to White Island, while it continues to spew toxic gas.

Are the Indian government’s claims about non-Muslim groups in neighbouring states correct?

Huge numbers of tourists risk scaling active volcanoes every year.

Protesters in India’s ethnically diverse northern regions clashed with police, as the contentious bill passed the upper house of parliament. Muslims will be excluded from the fast-track citizenship laws.

Critics say the Citizenship Amendment Bill is part of a government plan to marginalise Muslims.

In 2018, Sri Lanka was one of the top destinations in the world for foreign tourists, but the Easter bombings in April 2019 dealt a huge blow to the country’s tourism sector. Officials now point to a tourism revival.

The number of people with severe burns means doctors are sourcing donor skin from the US.

Pakistan enjoy a good day with the ball as Test cricket returns to the country for the first time since 2009.

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday denied “genocidal intent” as she defended Myanmar’s military operation against Rohingya Muslims in the UN’s top court.

The Nobel Prize laureate has offered a defense of Myanmar’s military actions that triggered an exodus of Rohingya. Gambia had taken the case to the top UN court, saying it should take all measures to prevent genocide.

A suicide bomber in Afghanistan detonated explosives on Wednesday outside the United States’ main military base of Bagram in an attack that wounded five people, Afghan and NATO officials said.

The results of Bougainville’s independence referendum are set to be announced Wednesday — with the troubled Pacific islands expected to resoundingly back the creation of a new nation and a break with Papua New Guinea.

Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations in court in The Hague.

The country’s most active volcano has erupted – but how good are scientists at predicting when this might happen?

A paramedic describes the scene he witnessed at the White Island volcano eruption in New Zealand.

Prolonged shutdowns and a continued ban on the internet have resulted in huge economic losses in India-administered Kashmir. But New Delhi says its "Kashmir integration" would eventually boost the region’s economy.

As Pakistan prepare to play their first Test at home since 2009, BBC Sport explores what it means for a country where cricket is “like a religion”.

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to personally defend Myanmar against accusations of genocide in The Hague on Tuesday, in a remarkable fall from grace for the woman once hailed as a rights icon.

Experts explain the history of New Zealand’s White Island and why tourists were there when it erupted.

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is set to defend her country in the International Court of Justice.

Eight people were missing and presumed dead on Tuesday after a volcanic eruption covered a small New Zealand island popular with tourists in hot ash and steam, killing five people and seriously injuring around 30 more.

With massive funding from global sources, a handful of Indian start-ups are influencing policy.

Bangladesh’s media industry has grown rapidly in the last decade, with new print and online media entering the market. But journalists are still deprived of professional rights that restrict their freedom to work.

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority on Monday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands.

A volcano that is a tourist attraction suddenly erupted off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring up to 20, with several more people reported missing.

Here are the most striking images from an unprecedented and historic few months in Hong Kong.

Some 800,000 demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, a day before the city marks six months since the start of mass protests that have morphed into a wider anti-government movement.

Organisers of a massive pro-democracy march in Hong Kong on Sunday said some 800,000 people took part, the largest turnout in months as the movement marks half a year of protests and unrest.

A fire believed to be caused by an electrical short circuit engulfed a building in India’s capital on Sunday where handbags and other items were made by workers earning as little as 2 dollars per day, killing at least 43 people.

Afghan film fans are up in arms after images of Bollywood’s latest epic, Panipat, were released.

A giant bushfire on the edge of Sydney, which has blanketed the city in smoke causing a spike in respiratory illnesses and the cancellation of outdoor sports, will take weeks to control but will not be extinguished without heavy rains, firefighters said. 

The woman, who was set alight by a gang of men, including two of her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital. A series of rape cases in recent weeks have once again put sexual crimes in India in the spotlight.

A climate system in the Indian Ocean, known as the dipole, is behind extreme weather events in East Africa and Australia.

More and more rapes are being reported in India – but how well is the justice system coping?

Iranian security forces have shot at protesters from helicopters and a rooftop and have aimed at peoples’ heads in using “severe violence” to quell anti-government unrest last month, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Friday.  

The police shooting of four men accused of gang rape and murder is largely being greeted with joy.

As Sydney gets a brand new zoo, animal experts question what we really learn from visiting captive animals.

Christina Tham won silver in the Southeast Asian Games aged 12 – and has now won gold aged 50.

Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the southern city of Hyderabad last week, a senior police official told Reuters.

Moey Hassan describes how “daytimers” became the big thing for South Asian teens in 1980s Bradford.

A U.S. Navy sailor shot and killed two people at the historic military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Wednesday, military officials said, before fatally shooting himself.

Air quality has exceeded hazardous levels in Australia’s largest city, and the fires are far from over.

Psychologists warn that a new generation of Hongkongers are grappling with “collective trauma”.

The small Pacific island nation of Samoa has closed schools and is restricting travel ahead of the Christmas holiday season as the death toll from a measles outbreak tops 50, in the latest flare-up of a global epidemic of the virus.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people detained during two weeks of sometimes violent protests against gasoline price hikes.

Pakistan’s sovereign bonds have never been a highly valued commodity, but global investors pumped $642.5 million into local currency bonds in November. The question is, how long will it last?

US Navy visits to Hong Kong have been suspended. But sanctions on several pro-democracy US NGOs are more symbolic than substantive after China had threatened strong countermeasures.

India has proposed creating a list of all people who legally fulfill Indian citizenship requirements. Opponents fear the list could be used to target minority groups. Murali Krishnan reports.