Scarlett Airey (left) and her sister Zoe pose with an ice sculpture at the launch of Hyde Park Winter Wonderland’s Magical Ice Kingdom in London yesterday.

Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was attacked with tear gas, beaten and robbed by three masked intruders outside her Paris apartment block, a report here said. A criminal investigation has been launched.

Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, Karachi’s sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for a last chance at life.

Scores of apprehensive parents made their way to the administration offices of Pak-Turk International Schools across the country on Wednesday, aghast at the news that the interior ministry had directed the Turkish staff to leave the country by November 20.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday accused the West of aiding his foes to spread chaos in the Islamic world and urged unity among Muslim states to fend off their enemies.

Award winning Philippine director Brillante Mendoza has turned his cinematic skills to promoting someone many in the West would see as an unlikely hero — President Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly drug war.

A Bangladesh court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for the country’s opposition leader after she failed to appear for a hearing over the date of her birthday.

Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a military crackdown in western Myanmar to Bangladesh, trying to escape an upsurge of violence that has brought the total number of dead confirmed by the army to more than 130.

Bank employees yesterday dismissed as “eyewash” the governments’ decision to use indelible ink to prevent people from making multiple cash withdrawals from banks.

Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra shows off a rice dessert during an event to promote the consumption of Thai rice to help struggling farmers, in her private garden in Bangkok.

The government yesterday announced new measures to allow farmers and marrying couples to withdraw more money from banks, as frustration mounted over a cash crisis triggered by the withdrawal of all high-value notes.

Four Galileo satellites were sent into orbit on the Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on Thursday and will soon be detectable by European smartphones.