• The Hiroshima and Nagasaki wartime atomic bombings were "divine punishment" on Japan, a South Korean newspaper has claimed.    
  • Appointment comes as the country’s leadership struggles to raise the country’s budget revenue and reform its state enterprises
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Burma for economic talks - in the first visit by a Japanese PM since 1977.
  • The stability of leadership and economic strategy that the prime minister brings are positives but his flirting with historical revisionism is not
  • President Obama defends the use of drones as a "just war" of self-defence against deadly militants, and a campaign that has made America safer.
  • Shares in Asia have recovered some of the steep falls suffered on Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei index rising 3%.
  • India cricket fans distraught over IPL fixing claims
  • Since they began in November 2002, in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, the US has conducted approximately 425 non-battlefield targeted killings
  • European aid agencies in North Korea say US financial sanctions are severely restricting their attempts to improve agriculture and nutrition there.
  • European aid groups say that their banks have stopped sending money to the impoverished country following US sanctions
  • Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing reveals he was once jumped on by a panda when he dared himself to enter its cage.
  • Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.
  • Panel makers seek settlements with the EU and US to avoid steep charges that they claim penalise operations as they struggle with losses
  • A Bangladeshi government investigation committee finds poor building construction at fault for deaths of hundreds of garment factory workers
  • A Bangladesh government report into the collapse of a multi-storey factory building, which killed more than 1,100, uncovers a series of violations.
  • A government investigation has found poor quality construction materials and building code violations were among the "series of irregularities" that caused the collapse of a building housing garment factories last month in Banglad...
  • An 80-year-old Japanese adventurer, Yuichiro Miura, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
  • Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer, says he is feeling elated after becoming the oldest person in history to reach the top of Mount Everst.    
  • An 80-year old Japanese man has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest peak.
  • An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who climbed Mount Everest five years ago, but just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit, has finally claimed the title.    
  • A court in Vietnam reduces the prison sentences of four activists convicted in January of trying to overthrow the one-party communist state.
  • Officials in the Philippines are up in arms at Dan Brown's description of the capital Manila as "the gates of hell" in his latest book.    
  • A family doctor who used a secret camera inside his wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients at his surgery is jailed for 12 years.
  • A betting scandal in the highly lucrative Indian Premier League is getting closer to the heart of the cricket tournament’s senior management
  • China has offered to send more than 500 troops to the UN force fighting Islamist militants in Mali, its biggest proposed contribution to UN peacekeeping ever.    
  • A mistake by a crane operator causes a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say.
  • Designer Stella McCartney hosted a dinner and presentation with a difference as jazz orchestras, ballroom dancers, acrobats and Mezzo Sopranos provided the entertainment.    

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