The US government bans all liquids from carry-on bags on nonstop flights to Russia, the latest security threat for the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Three months after Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm to ever hit the Philippines, many people who fled their devastated homes have still been unable to return.

A ma abused as a child by a priest in Poland seeks $64,500 from the country's Catholic Church - the first such civil case in the country.

The first of a new series looking at recording artists from across Asia focuses on a group of former buskers from East Java, Indonesia.

Hand-painted outdoor advertising is slowly appearing once again in the New York City landscape, as this labour-intensive craft skill has a renaissance.

A former manager at SAC Capital, a major US hedge fund founded by billionaire Steven Cohen, is found guilty of insider trading.

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park has staged a re-enactment of the breaking of the German Lorenz machine code using a rebuilt Colossus computer and a reconditioned Tunny cipher machine.

The costliest Winter Olympics in history officially open in Russia on Friday with a lavish ceremony in Sochi.