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California will become the first US state to ban caste discrimination if the legislation is approved.

Demand for rubber in India is soaring but local producers are giving up their money-losing plantations.

Twelve climbers have died and five remain missing, amid worries about overcrowding and climate change.

Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, the girl slept between two trees as temperatures dropped to 38F (3C).

Authorities are relentlessly plugging the "cracks" in China's Great Firewall to quench dissent.

It's hard to find mentions of the ex-PM after a blackout across networks following protests over his arrest.

Mourners were attending the funeral of a senior official killed in a bombing by Islamic State militants.

As wildfires rage in Canada, a view from one of the most polluted cities in the world.

North Yorkshire Council fears a number of Afghan refugees face eviction from a Scarborough hotel.

Police in Mumbai city have arrested a 56-year-old man for allegedly murdering his live-in partner.

Lily Naing Kyaw championed the military - her death has spread fear among its supporters.

A Delhi-San Francisco Air India flight landed in Russia on Tuesday after its engine developed a snag.

But they have warned they would resume their agitation if no action is taken against the federation chief.

Thousands of clips filmed in East Asia are sold online. BBC Eye reveals the men who are cashing in.

Japan's Self-Defence Forces are struggling to recruit from a population that is shrinking and ageing.

The Beijing-based firm has denied Chinese Communist Party members were allowed to access user data.

A 90-year-old Indian villager has been sentenced for life for the murder of 10 Dalits in 1981.