Ananya Roy

South Korea launched the special brigade on 1 December, two days after North Korea conducted a long-range ICBM test.

Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said their fighters killed former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh for his "treason".

The exercise involved Chinese air force reconnaissance planes, fighter jets, and an early warning and control aircraft.

North Korea launched its Hwasong-15 ICBM on Wednesday, 29 November, infuriating the US and its allies Japan and South Korea even further.

The 83-year-old, who had expressed his desire for abdication due to his growing age, will be the first Japanese emperor in two centuries to renounce his throne.

South Korea conducted a missile test exercise soon after the North launched its "highest" ever projectile that reached a height of 4,500km.

"North Korea might launch a missile within the next few days," a Japanese government source said, based on new radio signals intercepted from North Korea.

UN Migration Agency IOM estimates nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have so far taken refuge in makeshift settlements in different parts of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area.

Six F-22 Raptor and up to four F-35A Lightning stealth fighter jets of the US Air Force will engage in enemy infiltration and precision strike drills with South Korean Air Force fighter jets.

The commanders of the responsible military unit and senior officers "might have undergone punishment" following the defection, the intelligence source said.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri tweeted that his stay in Saudi Arabia was to consult security situation in Lebanon.

The accused, Santosh Rai, 21, who works as a security guard in south Delhi has been charged with rape under India's Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Posco) Act..

Ganga Kumari, a 24-year-old transgender, has finally been inducted as a constable in the Rajasthan state police department.

Florida police said the man was in possession of chemical substances similar to those found in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

Decline in birth rate in South Korea and the lack of interest among youth in building lasting relationships reportedly prompted academicians to frame the course.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump met officially on the sidelines of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit.

Irish singer and songwriter Bob Geldof protested after having to share the Freedom of the City of Dublin honour with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

Tehran has declared three days of mourning as rescue and relief operations continue amid fears of a further rise in the casualty figures.

Nearly 50% respondents from the UK, France and Finland said they considered staring at breasts sexual harassment, while it was less than 30% in Germany and Denmark.

"It is clear that Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials have declared war on Lebanon and on Hezbollah in Lebanon," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said.

Gunnery Sergeant Joseph Felix's case received national attention following the suicide of Pakistani-American Muslim recruit Raheel Siddiqui.

A crew of nearly 25 people were involved in the man's dramatic rescue from the deep crevice in the Dachstein mountain range in the Austrian Alps.

The marriage between the mother-daughter duo came to light during an inquiry by a state child welfare investigator.

The family of Elijah Silvera, 3, who studied in pre-K class at Seventh Avenue Center for Family Services in Harlem, New York, want an independent post-mortem.

"People really don't want to leave their homes. We are going to work hard on those things so people don't have to leave," a Fema official said.

According to CBI, the arrested student was weak in studies and wanted his examinations postponed, so he killed the child thinking a death in the school could delay the exams.

Police had charged six men of gang-raping the elderly nun, but court found only one man guilty of the crime and the others guilty of robbery and criminal conspiracy.

Wearing such attire is a sensitive issue for the general public, following recent terror incidents linked to the Isis militant group, a police officer said.

Houthis said they were "ready to offer sanctuary to any member of the Al Saud family or any Saudi national that wants to flee oppression and persecution".