The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, with a chest infection, but is reported to be in a stable condition.

At least 17 people have died in a Delhi hotel fire that broke out early on Tuesday morning, police said.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sent back to jail after a fresh corruption conviction.

At least 62 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia's Sunda Strait, government officials say.

At least 29 people are now known to have died after a cruise boat carrying party revellers capsized on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police say.

A Japanese pilot who was arrested at Heathrow Airport for being drunk has admitted being more than nine times the legal alcohol limit.

A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake south of the island of Zakynthos has been felt across western Greece.

India has published a list which effectively strips some four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.

After a heated World Cup match, the stands are usually left with food waste, cups and wrappers scattered in the heat of the moment.

United Airlines says it will offer up to $10,000 (£7,800) to passengers who give up seats on overbooked flights.

Two student groups that plan to host conservative author Ann Coulter have sued the University of California at Berkeley, where she plans to speak.

Donald Trump has indicated he will ditch plans to find cash for his border wall in this week's spending bill.

US Defence Secretary James Mattis was filmed beside an open cargo door as he flew in to Kabul on Monday. It was a glamorous image, but he could scarcely have flown into the country on a less auspicious day.

A Malaysian schoolboy whose legs were amputated after allegedly being beaten by a staff member may also lose his arm, doctors have warned.

As India's most restive region stares down the abyss of what a commentator calls another "hot summer of violence", the doom-laden headline has returned with a vengeance: Is India losing Kashmir?