A man has been arrested for opening a door of an Asiana Airlines flight as it was landing in South Korea. All 194 passengers survived the flight, which landed safely but with its door still open at Daegu International Airport on Friday. Some passengers fainted while others had breathing problems and were taken to hospital, […]

A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone. It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie. By the time it was found, the phone was too […]

One of Myanmar’s biggest hip-hop artists has been detained for criticising the military government on Facebook. Byu Har criticised the junta’s handling of nationwide power outages that have hit Myanmar in the past months. His detention is just the latest in the regime’s crackdown on critics.

China and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will strengthen their partnership and step up cooperation, Beijing has said, as talks over renegotiating mining contracts for the African country’s valuable mineral reserves continue. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi’s trip, his first state visit to China, is the latest in a flurry of diplomatic overtures between Beijing […]

Tens of thousands of exhausted people are heading home to the world’s youngest country as they flee a brutal conflict in neighbouring Sudan. Fighting between Sudan’s military and a rival militia killed at least 863 civilians in Sudan before a seven-day ceasefire began on Monday night. Many in South Sudan are concerned about what could […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he received many reports from Dnipro city over the Russian missile strike, which, according to him, killed at least two people and wounded 30. “It is a pure atrocity: a Russian missile, ballistics, against a hospital and a veterinary clinic. Absolutely sick creatures,” he said.