Secret camera footage appearing to show South Korea’s first lady accepting an expensive Dior handbag threatens to impact her corruption-busting husband’s election campaign. And it’s not even Kim Keon Hee’s first scandal.
After the Taliban outlawed opium production in Afghanistan, war-torn Myanmar became the world's main supplier. But former poppy farmers in Shan state say they have a solution for getting out of the drug industry.
The new civil code requires unmarried couples to register their relationships and bans polygamy, which some Indians say invades their privacy and erodes their religious freedoms.
Fickle algorithms, a steady stream of content, and a lack of reliable moderation on social media is creating gaps for violent content generated on the front lines of Ukraine to slip through.
Myanmar’s military government releases thousands of prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday, just days after airstrikes targeting rebels killed civilians in the country’s north-west.
For the past decade, Vladimir Putin has been quietly pursuing his goal of transforming Russia's frozen northern coast into a global shipping hub to rival the Suez canal. It's a bet that appears to be paying off at a key moment.
Amid political scandals, unrest and failed assassination attempts, hyperinflation in Argentina once hit 5,000 per cent. Now, with real wages plummeting, the country is lurching closer to familiar disaster.
Drew Pavlou says he was kept in custody overnight by British police and held
incommunicado over allegations he had emailed a bomb threat to the Chinese
embassy before a protest in London.
Studies show that almost a quarter of conflict-affected individuals develop some
form of mental health disorder: In Ukraine, that puts 1.5 million children at
risk, with long-term effects costing billions of dollars.