The Chinese military has built a series of models of American fighter jets in a remote desert in the northwest of the country, apparently to use as target...

Featuring contestants including Jade Goody, Shilpa Shetty, George Galloway and “Nasty Nick” Bateman, the reality television show Big Brother has never been...

China has built lavish new premises to house the government of the small island nation of Vanuatu, rent free, as part of Beijing’s ongoing efforts to extend...

An activist is suing an American-based company claiming he was forced to sew its products while being held as a political prisoner, in a case highlighting the...

An activist who posted videos documenting the burning and destruction of the dwellings of maritime nomads near Borneo has been prosecuted by Malaysian...

Loyal officials of the North Korean communist party are wearing badges bearing the face of Kim Jong-un for the first time, in an indication of the...

As a boy Ahmad Massoud read Persian poetry with his father, stared through a makeshift telescope into night skies speckled with stars and dreamt of being an...

China’s newest Roman Catholic bishop has been installed after promising to “uphold socialist principles”, under an agreement allowing the Communist Party...

Japan’s government concealed the alleged rape of a schoolgirl by a United States serviceman on the island of Okinawa, influencing the result of a crucial...

The company that makes most of the world’s iPhones has denied reports that it refuses to hire married women in India for assembly line jobs, in case they get...