Nigeria launched a $10bn infrastructure programme yesterday in its restive Delta region as part of a plan to end an insurgency that has hobbled oil production.

The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application to send asylum seekers held on an isolated island to Australia on a paperwork technicality.

An Australian theme park yesterday defended its safety standards following the deaths of four people on a malfunctioning ride, while admitting it had not been in touch with grieving relatives of those killed.

China’s ruling Communist Party yesterday declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership, elevating his already powerful status.

For many women in Pakistan, the simple act of leaving the house can be uncomfortable, even intimidating — the probing gaze of the opposite sex is never far away.

Chief of the United Jihad Council, Syed Salahuddin (second right) walks with Jaish-e-Mohamed chief in Kashmir, Mufti Mohamed Asghar (second left) and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen chief, Farooq Kashmiri (left) after a conference in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir yesterday.

Model Naomi Campbell poses for a photograph with Baroness Amos, after Amos received her Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour at Buckingham Palace, in London yesterday.

Ukip has endorsed Zac Goldsmith, the former Conservative MP who is now standing as an independent in the Richmond Park by-election.

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall look at food hampers during a visit to a Waitrose supermarket in the town of Poundbury yesterday.

Playing classic video games like Pac-Man with living single-celled microbes thinner than a human hair is now possible thanks to an interactive microscope developed by bioengineers at Stanford University.

A generous diamond tycoon in India is once again giving away hundreds of cars and flats to his employees as a bonus for meeting company targets.

A Pakistan opposition party planning a major anti-government protest was raided by police Thursday as authorities banned all public gatherings in Islamabad for two months.