Swimmer missing after suspected shark attack off Australian west coast
Emergency crews rushed to Sorrento Beach in Perth on Friday morning with a police search underway.
Category: Asia
Japan raises interest rate to new 31-year high to curb rising prices
Central banks around the world have hiked rates as high energy prices are pushing up inflation.
'Complete despair': Afghan female medical students fear being sent home from Pakistan
Since 2023, hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been deported from Pakistan and over two million have left.
India's hospital boom is improving access but pricing millions out of critical care
Indian hospitals have attracted billions in funding, but the gap between public and private care is widening.
Climate change likely played role in Nepal-Tibet flood, study finds
More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands remain missing following the deluge on 26 August.
India and Pakistan summon diplomats after ships collide in international waters
Both sides accuse each other of causing the collision which happened in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday.
India faces 100% tariff threat over Russian oil after US House vote
Trump’s tariff threat puts India’s Russian oil strategy- and its access to the US market – in a new bind.
More than 1,000 children dead in Bangladesh measles outbreak
Until March this year, Bangladesh had made “substantial progress” towards eliminating measles.
Fiji declares HIV a national emergency as cases surge
One in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific nation of less than a million people are living with the virus.
Philippines' Duterte seen in person at International Criminal Court for first time
He is due to be tried for crimes against humanity over thousands of deaths linked to his war on drugs.