Japan's environment minister says contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant may have to be released into the ocean because storage space will run out in 2022. More than a million tonnes of water that has been used to cool melted reactors is kept in giant tanks.

Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. On a government tour, the BBC saw four locations where secure facilities have been built on what satellite images show

North Korea is willing to restart denuclearisation talks with the United States later this month, the country's vice foreign minister has said. Choe Son-hui said they were willing to resume "comprehensive" discussions in a setting agreed by both sides. Her statement came after

MPs have again rejected Boris Johnson's calls for a snap election, as the five-week suspension of Parliament begins. In all, 293 MPs voted for prime minister's motion for an early poll, far short of the number needed. Earlier, opposition MPs confirmed they would not support

The Taliban says Americans have the most to lose from cancelling peace negotiations that sought to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. In a statement, the group claimed all was going well until the last moment. US President Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets on Saturday

It's not just the Brazilian Amazon burning -- fires in Bolivia have ravaged more than 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of land, according to Bolivian officials. That's more than double the damage from just two weeks ago. Fires are leaving blackened trees and ash-covered

Terming the just-completed exercise of updating Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) "a phase" in a larger process, Indian home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Centre wouldn't allow a single "infiltrator’ to live in the state. "A phase of the NRC has been

A powerful typhoon landed near Tokyo early Monday morning, killing at least two people and injuring about 40, as well as affecting hundreds of thousands of rush-hour commuters in the metropolitan area at the start of the week. East Japan Railway Co., also known as JR East, had

At least 29 people were killed in Burkina Faso’s troubled north on Sunday after a food convoy and a transport truck were attacked, the government said. A “terrorist” attack on the convoy killed 14 civilians, while the truck hit an explosive device in Sanmatenga province, killing

King Salman on Sunday issued a royal decree appointing Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as energy minister. Prince Abdulaziz replaced Khalid Al-Falih, who was removed from the post that he held since May 2016.  Another decree named Prince Sultan bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

Chandrayaan 2 mission is a "huge step forward for India" and it will continue to produce valuable data to fuel scientific advancements, the United States said today, a day after India's second moon mission hit a snag during a historic landing attempt. "We congratulate ISRO on their

Donald Trump has said he called off a planned Camp David meeting with Taliban and Afghan leaders after a Taliban suicide car bomb attack in Kabul killed 12 people. "Unbeknownst to almost everyone," the president tweeted, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Taliban leaders were headed

Amber Rudd has quit the cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip saying she cannot "stand by" while "moderate Conservatives are expelled". The work and pensions secretary said she no longer believed leaving the EU with a deal was the government's "main objective". Ms Rudd

DHAKA: Regional NGO Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is organising the ‘Asia Regional Youth Festival 2019: Building the Next Generation Movement for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, next week to empower young people in Asia to hold governments

A long-awaited exchange of prisoners being held by Russia and Ukraine appears to be under way. Buses from a Russian jail headed towards a Moscow airport "within the framework of preparations", Russian TV said, and planes flew to Kiev and Moscow. Those expected to be swapped include

Presidents and representatives from seven countries in South America's Amazon region met in Colombia on Friday to discuss a joint strategy for preserving the world's largest rainforest, which has been under threat from a record number of wildfires. At the summit, the seven

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told his country's space scientists he was proud of a programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon. Contact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost moments before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The

A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls. Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday. "The mother and the babies are doing well," Dr Uma Sankar, the woman's doctor, told BBC Telugu.

A Brazilian government minister said French first lady Brigitte Macron was “truly ugly” Thursday, only days after the country’s president appeared to endorse an attack on her appearance. Brazil’s economy minister Paulo Guedes said he agreed with President Jair Bolsonaro’s

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first post-independence leader, has died aged 95. He died after battling ill health, his family confirmed to the BBC. Mr Mugabe had been in hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in November 2017, ending three decades in