The cost of calling out a 'rape joke'

Hundreds of people have been evacuated as Mount Ruang continues to erupt for the second day.

Nearly a billion people are eligible to vote in India’s national election, which is set to begin on 19 April.

Footage seen by the BBC shows Rohingya men at an army training camp, being taught how to use rifles.

The two-year-old boy was trapped inside the borewell for 20 hours before he was rescued by authorities.

Passengers and crew reportedly jumped into the sea to escape the blaze.

Video shows nurse and her colleagues scrambling to hold on to baby cots, as the building they're in begins to shake.

Thousands of Fu Bao fans lined the streets, as the country's first giant panda left for China.

The moment a man swimming in hotel rooftop pool was shaken by the Taiwan earthquake.

BBC Asia Correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes explains how the Taiwan earthquake unfolded.

Video shows buildings being rocked by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on the island.

The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil spoke with Hiroshima residents who saw the film for the first time today.

The bird was seen running down the streets of Seongnam before it was captured and returned to a zoo.

Rescuers find 69 people sunburnt and dehydrated, floating on a rusty hull off the coast of Indonesia.

Aerial footage shows the overturned vessel being smashed by waves as the Japan coastguard launches a rescue operation.

Video shows the North Korean leader speaking to military officials as rockets fire into the sky.

Space One’s ‘Kairos’ rocket burst into flames shortly after lift-off on Wednesday morning.

The tiny village of Taesung - home to 138 people - sits in the strip of no man's land between North and South Korea.

The leopard was later tranquillised and rescued by wildlife officials in Maharashtra state.

Earlier, coast guard vessels of China and the Philippines collided in the disputed South China Sea.

Dozens were killed and many injured after a blaze tore through a seven-storey building in the Bangladesh capital.