Fabindia deleted the ad for its new festive collection after a severe backlash on social media.

Pyongyang fires a submarine-launched ballistic missile weeks after the South unveiled its own such weapon.

Police have "grave concerns" for four-year-old Cleo Smith, after she vanished from her family's tent.

A 62-year-old Indian wants a new Covid-19 vaccine certificate without Narendra Modi's photograph.

Zalmay Khalilzad led talks with the Taliban that resulted in a deal to fully withdraw US troops.

Images of the pair travelling to a temple in Kerala state amid flooding are widely shared online.

The Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban must announce that girls can go to school.

The famed service is helping solve the immense challenge of vaccinating remote areas.

Its children's agency says it will begin vaccinations nationwide with the Taliban's blessing.

The leader of the military junta says they are being freed for humanitarian reasons.

The report in the Financial Times newspaper reportedly caught US intelligence by surprise.

Tributes are paid to Maori All Blacks centre Sean Wainui after the 25-year-old dies in a car crash in New Zealand.

The world's second largest economy expanded by less than expected in the third quarter.

BBC correspondent Yogita Limaye in Kabul asks the Taliban when girls can go back to school.

The man and teenage boy endured up to four days without water in "harsh" conditions, police say.

India's oldest and tallest mountain of rubbish in the city of Mumbai is 18 storeys high.

Heavy rains cause rivers to overflow in Kerala, washing away homes and trapping people under debris.

The success of The Battle at Lake Changjin is bad news for Hollywood which wants to grow in China.

The 450kg-haul was concealed in a shipment of ceramic tiles sent to Melbourne from Malaysia.

South East Asian countries decide not to invite the military coup leader to their meeting.