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Laura BickerChina correspondent Watch: US and China’s different reports of their trade meeting Donald Trump came away from his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping full of bombastic optimism. He called it a “great success” and rated it 12, on a scale of 1 to 10. China was less enthusiastic. …

K-pop group NewJeans has lost a legal battle to leave its record label Ador. A South Korean court on Tuesday ruled that the act’s contract with the label, which runs until 2029, remains valid. The group’s five members – Hanni, Hyein, Haerin, Danielle and Minji – announced last year that …

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are set to meet to discuss a trade deal. BBC News

An Australian teenager has died after he was hit by a cricket ball during a practice session in Melbourne. The 17-year-old was training in cricket nets in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday when he was struck in the head or neck by a ball from an automatic bowling machine. It’s believed …

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 have been found more than a century later on the country’s south-western coast. The cheerful notes were penned just a few days into their voyage to join the battlefields of France during World War One. One of the soldiers, …

Authorities in Indian capital Delhi unsuccessfully carried out a cloud seeding trial, which is the science of altering clouds to make rains, to tackle the city’s worsening air pollution on Tuesday. Cloud seeding is done by firing small particles – usually silver iodide – into clouds to produce rain. The …

Koh Ewe,Singapore and Kathryn Armstrong,London Getty Images The meeting comes as both countries are still trying to reach a trade deal US President Donald Trump has met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as part of the final leg of his whirlwind trip across Asia. The meeting comes as …

Benz Hui, a veteran Hong Kong performer known as the “King of Supporting Actors” during his five-decade career, has died at the age of 76. He passed away in the early hours of Tuesday at a hospital in Hong Kong after suffering complications caused by cancer, according to local media. …

Kamal Saini,BBC Punjabi, Kaithal, Haryana and Avtar Singh,BBC Punjabi, Kaithal, Haryana Kamal Saini The deportation comes amid a crackdown on illegal immigrants under the Trump administration Several illegal Indian migrant workers who were recently deported from the US have recounted their ordeal to BBC Punjabi, describing humiliation, debt and shattered …

Australian authorities are investigating after an 80-year-old woman who was left behind on a Great Barrier Reef island by a cruise ship was found dead. The woman had been hiking on Lizard Island, 250 km (155 miles) north of Cairns, with fellow passengers from the Coral Adventurer cruise ship on …

Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent Getty Images Trump with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi US President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of deals on his Asia visit to secure the supply of rare earths, a critical sector that China has long dominated. The deals with Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and …

A man accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, told a court in the capital Tokyo that “everything is true”, according to local media. Yamagami – also facing charges over arms control law violations – …

Getty Images President Donald Trump is greeted by Malaysian PM Anwar when he arrives in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025 “I was in prison but you almost got there,” Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim joked to US President Donald Trump as the cameras rolled. It was a dicey joke – …

A custom-made surfboard which fell off a boat in Tasmania almost 18 months ago has been found off the west coast of New Zealand, after drifting about 2,400 km (1,490 miles) across the sea. Frenchman Alvaro Bon was kitesurfing in Raglan Harbour on the North Island about two weeks ago …

Tessa Wongin Kuala Lumpur AFP via Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim oversaw the signing ceremony on Sunday As US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in Kuala Lumpur, it was at the end of a busy 24 hours that, by the White House’s …

Ethirajan Anbarasan,Global Affairs reporter and Koh Ewe Getty Images India and China have been steadily rebuilding relations Direct flights between India and China have resumed as relations between the countries appear to be thawing. IndiGo flight 6E 1703 from Kolkata landed in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Monday, …

Abhishek DeyBBC News, Guwahati Getty Images Zubeen Garg sang in more than 40 languages and dialects Vishal Kalita’s collection of music cassettes has turned his residence in India’s Assam state into a private museum. For more than a decade, the 30-year-old has been travelling across the country buying obsolete tapes, …

It was, as everyone knew it would be, all about US President Donald Trump. He literally towered over everyone else at the ceremony in Kuala Lumpur where Cambodia and Thailand signed their agreement. He gave the longest speech – and made the biggest claims. It was all superlatives. “This is …

AFP via Getty Images The visit includes a much-awaited meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping US President Donald Trump is arriving in Asia for a whirlwind week of diplomacy, which includes a much-anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda between the two will be …

A 69-year-old Japanese tourist has died after falling off the perimeter wall of the Pantheon in Rome, local media reports. Morimasa Hibino is said to have fallen from a height of about seven metres (22.9 ft) at around 21:50 local time (19:50 GMT). A priest who was passing by alerted …