Frank Butler

Taiwan's governing KMT picks Hung Hsui-chu to run for president, setting up the first all-female contest between the country's main parties.

A series of explosions targeted cars belonging to officials in Gaza on Sunday, including those from the ruling Hamas group.

The Mitsubishi corporation of Japan is to make a landmark apology for using US prisoners of war as forced labour during World War Two.

Lleyton Hewitt guides Australia into the Davis Cup semi-finals as the hosts come from 2-0 down to beat Kazakhstan 3-2

Ex-AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd is arrested in New Zealand, less than two weeks after being sentenced for drug possession and making threats to kill.

Police in Beijing arrest five people, including a young couple, over a sex tape filmed in a branch of the Uniqlo clothes shop, Chinese state media say.

An employee of South Korea's NIS spying agency apparently kills himself in his car on a mountain road as a scandal over phone-hacking rages.

American comedian Bill Cosby admitted trying to pay women to keep quiet after having sex with them, in testimony found by the New York Times.

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter begins a tour of the Middle East in an attempt to allay fears over a recent deal on Iran's nuclear programme.

One of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, sparks uproar with an attack on the war record of John McCain.