(BBC)A man has been arrested after an alleged “swatting” prank call led to police shooting dead a 28-year-old man. Andrew Finch was shot at his front door on 28 December in Wichita, Kansas. Police surrounded the home after receiving a hoax em ...
(BBC)Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents. The new safety regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind climbers from attempting to reach the summit of the world’s high ...
(BBC)India’s film censor board has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavati, reports say. The film, which tells the story of a 14th Century Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler, has sparked nationwide protests by Hindu and caste group ...
(New York Times)Chinese officials are planning to put Tashi Wangchuk, who advocates broader Tibetan language education, on trial next week for “inciting separatism,” a charge that could result in a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, according to hi ...
(BBC)Russian authorities have arrested a suspect they believe carried out Wednesday’s bombing of a supermarket in St Petersburg that was claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS). The Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained the “orga ...
(BBC)Anti-government protests have continued in Iran for a third day, with reports of demonstrations in many cities despite warnings from authorities. At Tehran University, protesters called for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down and there ...
(BBC)South Korea has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions. Officials said the Lighthouse Winmore had secretly transferred 600 tonnes of refined oil to a Nort ...
(BBC)Nine people were killed in twin attacks on Coptic Christians, south of Cairo, the interior ministry says. Six civilians and a policeman died when a gunman tried to storm a church but was intercepted and arrested by police, it said. It said he had als ...
(BBC)1. The president is in confident mood Before flying to Florida, Congress approved a bill which Mr Trump called “the largest tax cut in the history of our country”. Yesterday, he tweeted a poll which suggested his approval rating was impr ...
(BBC)New York City investigators believe the Bronx fire that killed 12 people, including four children, was caused by a child playing with a cooker. An unattended three-year-old boy accidentally started the blaze, fire commissioner Daniel Nigro said. As t ...