India, in focus.
China's passenger car exports in the first eight months of 2025 exceeded last year's full total, driven by electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, while domestic sales fell.
A new survey of Australian teachers finds student misbehaviour is costing a third of classroom teaching time, with female educators bearing the brunt.
An Ifo analysis finds that 11 billion euros of Germany's 2025 defence-exemption borrowing went to other budget purposes, a 38.5% misappropriation rate.
Families of nine missing South Korean workers in Nepal demand Seoul halt the relief team's early withdrawal, saying key areas were never searched on foot.
UN chief Antonio Guterres travels to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he will make the case for reforming the Security Council and other multilateral bodies.
Germany's military is evaluating 30 AI tools to speed battlefield decision-making, targeting a prototype by 2027 and full deployment in 2028.
Amitabh Kant has called on China to open its market to BRICS nations and share clean technology, while urging India to engage Beijing on batteries and critical minerals.
South Korea is close to an energy investment package exceeding $100 billion aimed at supporting US artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Trump proposed paying every US adult $5,000 if Republicans win November's congressional elections, capping the GOP's first midterm convention.
Japan has deployed 300 personnel, a landing ship and three Chinook helicopters to Indonesian Borneo to help fight wildfires whose toxic haze has spread across Southeast Asia.
At a two-day GOP convention in Dallas, Trump discussed the Iran war, defended its economic cost, and floated renaming Lake Ontario, New Mexico and the Strait of Hormuz.
An Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya killed four people, including two children, while a Houthi-run TV station claimed Saudi-backed forces hit several Yemeni provinces.
Oil industry figures in Asia see little chance of a swift end to the Iran conflict and are preparing for extended disruption to Middle East supplies.
Anuradha and Vikas Sinha have donated $20 million to the University of North Texas to establish a college focused on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
Trump expects the Iran war to end after November's midterms and threatens to hit Pickaxe Mountain, as shipping attacks surge and oil prices stay high.
A Thai police officer accused of killing his wife at a kindergarten surrendered after an 18-hour standoff, as the country debates gun control.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has recorded 6,757 confirmed Ebola cases and 3,267 deaths, with the outbreak now spanning 61 health zones across six provinces.
Trump promised a $5,000 payment to every American adult if Republicans retain the House and Senate, a costly pledge that drew an immediate partial walk-back from Vice President JD Vance.
A 24-hour English-language hotline set up after the August 26 China-Nepal border disaster has received nearly 600 calls from families of the missing.
Trump opened the Republican midterm convention in Dallas by asking voters to 'pretend' he is on the ballot and vowing to defy midterm history.