Chinese police have opened an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against a well-known Buddhist monk accused of harassing nuns

China has refused to renew the journalist visa for an American reporter with BuzzFeed News in what appeared to be punishment for her reporting on sensitive subjects

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh are celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, praying for better lives as they wonder if they'll ever again celebrate at their homes in Myanmar

The people of the flood-battered Indian state of Kerala are "in a great struggle to rebuild their lives," the state's top official has said, as aid workers warned it could take days before the full scope of the destruction is clear

Officials say some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state

Counterterrorism official says Islamic State group is newest, deadliest front in Pakistan's decades-old war on terror

Thousands of Indians gather as the funeral pyre is lit for former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist respected across the political spectrum

Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, dies at 93

As Kabul Shiites mourn their dead, hold funeral services, IS claims horrific suicide bombing that killed 34 students

Members of a commission established by Myanmar's government to investigate human rights violations in western Rakhine state, where 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority fled brutal army operations, have pledged to be impartial