Russia's military is carrying out four days of drills involving 250 aircraft and 12,000 service personnel, as Nato begins an Arctic exercise.

Bangladesh bans an Islamist militant group accused of attacking and killing three secular bloggers, the interior ministry says.

An online petition calling for the scrapping of Australia's tax on tampons is backed by the Treasurer Joe Hockey.

A fire at a nursing home in China's Henan province kills 38 people and leaves six injured, state media report.

The smallest and rarest marine dolphin in the world could be extinct within 15 years if protection is not stepped up, according to research.

The trial of a Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for almost 10 months on charges that include espionage is due to open.

China announces its strategy to focus the navy beyond its borders into open water, in a military strategy document.

Malaysia exhumes bodies suspected to be migrants buried in 139 grave sites as fresh details of alleged human trafficking camps emerge.