Pro-democracy camp takes majority of district seats.

Amit Shah also defended the government's actions in Kashmir, and said not a single person has died in the region.

Beijing lodges strong protest against approval of special administrative region-related bill by Senate.

This will see two brothers holding the top positions in the government of Sri Lanka for the first time in its history.

D-MOSS is developing a forecasting system in which earth observation datasets are combined with weather forecasts to predict the likelihood of dengue epidemics.

The New York Times reporting, based on documents shared by a member of the Chinese political establishment, shows the extent of Beijing’s surveillance and control of the Uighur population in Xinjiang.

Rajapaksa, who oversaw the military defeat of Tamil separatists under his brother and then president Mahinda Rajapaksa 10 years ago, has promised strong leadership to secure the island of 22 million people.

Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, who was in London to promote Hong Kong as a dispute resolution and deal-making hub, was targeted by a group of protesters who shouted “murderer” and “shameful”.

The country's weather bureau warned that winds and lightning strikes increase the threat to communities across two states on the country's east coast, which have been ravaged by fire since last Friday.

Thousands of students hunkered down inside several campuses, surrounded by piles of food, bricks, petrol bombs, arrows with heads wrapped in cladding, catapults and other homemade weapons.

Authorities in Australia's Queensland and New South Wales states declared a state of emergency on Monday, urging residents in areas deemed at most risk of fires to evacuate.

Hong Kong police confirmed that one officer had fired his gun and a man was shot, without specifying where this happened.

Hindus say the site is one of their most sacred places - as sacred as Mecca is for Muslims.

Both sides said further deals were ‘close’.

Pro-establishment Hong Kong lawmaker Junius Ho Kwan-yiu was stabbed by a knife-wielding man while canvassing votes in Tuen Mun, New Territories, on Wednesday morning.

China and France pledged at this year's G20 summit to "update" their contributions against climate change beyond their current ones to reflect "their highest possible ambition."

Children, many wearing face masks, returned to schools in New Delhi and its surrounding cities even as air pollution stayed at "unhealthy" levels.

Pakistan has made many diplomatic overtures after recent moves over Kashmir by India.

Another weekend, another protest in Hong Kong with violence perpetrated by alleged triads against demonstrators.

An index measuring the level of a deadly air pollutant hit 484 on a scale of 500 on Friday.