Hong Kong’s legislature was again reduced to chaos yesterday as political divisions deepen over the swearing in of two new lawmakers who advocate a split from Beijing.

Human Rights Watch condemned the exile of Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday, joining other rights organisations that have criticised Prime Minister Hun Sen’s demand to bar him from entering the country.

A fire again forced the evacuation of one of Malaysia’s busiest hospitals yesterday, just a day after a blaze at the facility killed six patients.

Armed police are to travel on London Tube trains following the bomb alert at North Greenwich station, a senior officer revealed yesterday.

Paul Beatty was named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for The Sellout, a biting satire on race relations in the US.

South African police yesterday fired stun grenades to disperse student protesters outside parliament as the finance minister delivered a speech warning of the country’s weakening economy.

Amid a bitter and public war of supremacy in the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday met Governor Ram Naik at the Raj Bhavan.

One of princess Aalia Sultana Babi’s most prized possessions is a fossilised dinosaur egg she found an unsuspecting villager using to grind spices on her ancestral lands, an area billed as “India’s Jurassic Park.”

A court in Bengaluru yesterday acquitted former Karnataka chief minister and state Bharatiya Janata Party president B S Yeddyurappa in a bribery case.

Prime Minister Theresa May greets Bahrain king Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifah outside 10 Downing Street in London yesterday.

India's child protection agency has appealed to parents not to let children take part in religious rituals that could be dangerous, following a teenager's death after a 68-day fast.

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a free update to its Windows operating system that lets users take photos and edit content in three dimensions, in a bid to raise excitement for its declining computing business.