Asia

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 18, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) guiding the construction of Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / KCNA / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP.

N Korea ‘preparing fifth nuclear test’

SOUTH KOREA has detected signs that the North is preparing for a fifth nuclear test, President Park Geun-hye said.

CREDIT: Twitter/@Rokia CONFUSED residents of Fukuoka waded through city streets after a thick layer of mysterious foam appeared following a deadly earthquake. Photos and videos of the incident began surfacing on social media shortly after a 7.3 magnitute quake and strong aftershocks rocked the area on the weekend.

Weird foam blankets Japanese city

CONFUSED residents of Fukuoka waded through city streets after a thick layer of mysterious foam appeared following a deadly earthquake.

Asia

(FILES) This file photo taken on March 2, 2016, shows Davao City Mayor and Presidential Candidate Rodrigo Duterte speaks to reporters during his campaign sortie in Lingayen, Pangasinan, north of Manila. Leading Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, whose campaign promises a ruthless war on crime, was condemned on April 17, 2016 after a video surfaced of him apparently joking about a murdered Australian rape victim. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

Candidate not sorry for Aussie rape joke

A FILIPINO presidential candidate has come under fire for joking about the rape of a murdered Australian missionary — and he’s refusing to apologise.

Asia

KUMAMOTO, JAPAN - APRIL 16: Houses are seen destroyed after a recent earthquake on April 16, 2016 in Kumamoto, Japan. Following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on April 14th, the Kumamoto prefecture was once again struck by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, killing 9 people. (Photo by Taro Karibe/Getty Images)

Quake rescuers in ‘race against time’

THE US military was set to join Japanese rescuers racing against the threat of more landslides to reach people still trapped by two big earthquakes.

Asia

This handout image taken from video footage released by the Kumamoto Prefectural Police on April 15, 2016 shows a rescue worker carrying an eight-month-old baby girl after she was pulled from the rubble following an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture. Rescuers were scrambling to find survivors on April 15 after a powerful earthquake in southern Japan that left at least nine people dead and hundreds injured, sparking fires and buckling roads. / AFP PHOTO / Kumamoto Prefectural Police / STR / Japan OUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Kumamoto Prefectural Police " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES

Baby saved from Japan earthquake

A BABY girl who had been asleep when a deadly earthquake struck Japan was rescued from the rubble of a destroyed home after a six-hour rescue operation.

Asia

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter gestures as he arrives for the closing ceremony of the 11-day joint US-Philippines military exercise dubbed "Balikatan 2016" (Shoulder-To-Shoulder 2016) Friday, April 15, 2016 at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Carter is visiting the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis sailing in the South China Sea on Friday. Second from left is Foreign Secretary Jose Almendras. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Pentagon chief visits South China Sea

THE US Defence Secretary, Ash Carter, has visited an American aircraft carrier in the contested waters of the South China Sea.

Asia

Residents walk past a house damaged by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. The powerful earthquake struck Thursday night, knocking down houses and buckling roads. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japan rescuers in race to save lives

RESCUERS are scrambling to find residents feared trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake in Japan killed nine people and injured 800 others.

Animals

Chacha, the male chimp, screams at a worker in Sendai, northern Japan, Thursday, April 14, 2016 after fleeing from a zoo. The chimpangzee tried desperately to avoid being captured by climbing an electric pole. Chacha was on the loose nearly two hours Thursday after it disappeared from the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai, the city that's hosting finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations in May. (Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Anarchist chimp goes rogue, escapes zoo

A ROGUE chimpanzee has shown why his favourite television show is Prison Break after escaping from a zoo in northern Japan.

Royals

Kate Duchess of Cambridge takes part in an archery event as her husband Prince William looks over her shoulder in Thimphu, Bhutan, during day five of the royal tour to India and Bhutan Thursday April 14, 2016. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Kate channels Katniss in Bhutan

THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have swapped their cricket bats for bows and arrows in Bhutan — allowing Kate to strike the pose, Hunger Games style.

Archaeology

CREDIT: Khovd Museum AN ANCIENT mummy discovered in Mongolia seems to be way ahead of its time fashion wise – by wearing ADIDAS trainers. Scientists unearthed the 1,500-year-old remains of a woman’s hands and feet high up in the Altai mountains.

Mummy found ‘wearing Adidas’

A 1500-YEAR-OLD mummy seems to be way ahead of its time. It was unearthed wearing what appear to be Adidas trainers.

Asia

Indian resident Lucy Singh Biswas is comforted by relatives at Siliguri Hospital after she broke her leg by falling down stairs when an earthquake hit Siliguri on April 13, 2016 Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 6.9 quake on April 13, the US Geological Survey reported, with tremors in India and China sending residents rushing out into the streets. / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA

Myanmar earthquake felt in India

A STRONG earthquake has struck Myanmar and was felt in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh.

WTF

ONLINE ONLY - ONE TIME USAGE - PIC BY YULI SEPERI / CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: Raihan at home) - Muhammad Raihan is revered as Hindu God in his village in North Kalimantan in Indonesia because of his peculiar appearance. The 13-year-old boy suffers from severe hair growth on his body that gives him a look of a werewolf. His whole face and arms and legs are covered with thick hair as long as 3cm. The boy, who studies in middle school and is often subjected to mockery by his classmates. But Raihan is unfazed with the ridicule and name-calling as he believes he is a blessed child of the God and wants to serve him as a cleric. - SEE CATERS COPY Picture: Caters News Agency

Werewolf boy bullied and loved like a god

DOCTORS can’t explain his extreme hair growth, but this Indonesian teenager is taking it all in his stride.

Television

Sally Faulkner has been detained in Lebanon after attempting to retrieve her children (Lahlea, aged 5 (L) and Noah, aged 2 (R)) from her ex-husband. Source: FACEBOOK

Why 60 Mins mum had no choice

A FATHER who flew overseas to get his child with an agent and TV crew says he understands how Sally Faulkner got into this mess.

Asia

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks as he holds a news conference concluding the G7 foreign ministers meetings in Hiroshima, Japan, Monday, April 11, 2016. Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries, meeting Monday in the atomic-bombed Japanese city of Hiroshima, called for a renewed push for flagging nuclear disarmament efforts as they wrestled with some of the intractable global problems facing their nations. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Kerry makes historic visit to Hiroshima

US Secretary of State John Kerry has made a historic visit to Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, the most senior administration official ever to visit the city.

Leaders

The photo that changed history

IN 1980, an Aussie family had a chance meeting with a scrawny teenager in China, setting him on the path to change the world.

Asia

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. President Barack Obama will be meeting with Asian leaders in Washington this week as fears grow that long-smoldering tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea risk flaring into conflict. But other pressing security issues will be up for discussion on the sidelines of the two-day gathering that starts Thursday, March 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Senior North Korean spy ‘defects’

A SENIOR North Korean military officer who oversaw spying operations has fled to the South, in a rare high level defection.

Asia

Five detained over India fireworks blast

FIVE people have been arrested after witnesses told of how fireworks sparked a huge blaze at an Indian temple, leaving 110 people dead and hundreds injured.

Asia

Inside ‘prostitute slum palace’

ONCE a luxurious hub that was fit for a king, then things went horribly wrong. Now, thousands live here among sex workers and drug addicts.

Asia

Earthquake rattles Pakistan

A POWERFUL earthquake has struck parts of Pakistan and the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border, killing at least two people and injuring four.

Asia

Sickening torture caught on camera

A SHOCKING video has emerged of women being stripped naked, burned and tortured. WARNING: Extremely disturbing footage.

Asia

This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 2, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) inspecting the test of a new-type anti-air guided weapon system at an unknown location. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / KCNA / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

North Korea claims rocket success

NORTH Korea claims it has successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic rocket engine that will give it the ability to “reduce the US to ashes”.

Asia

Atheist student hacked, shot to death

THREE motorcycle-riding Islamic assailants hacked and shot a man to death, the latest in a string of similar attacks in Bangladesh’s capital.

Asia

Myanmar's new Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy party (NLD), smiles during a press conference after meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Suu Kyi to free all political prisoners

MYANMAR democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that her government plans to release all political prisoners as soon as possible.

Asia

Picture: 7News AN Australian wanted in Perth on drug charges has been arrested in Bali after he allegedly produced another man’s passport and claimed the photo was taken when he was “chubby”. Shaun Edward Davidson aroused the suspicions of authorities when he was confronted by immigration officials at a cheap hotel in the popular beachside area of Kuta last month and produced a passport in the name of Michael John Bayman.

Aussie held in Bali over fake passport

AN Australian man wanted on drug charges has been arrested in Bali after he allegedly produced another man’s passport, claiming the photo was taken when he was “chubby”.

Wealth

In this Thursday, March 31, 2016 photo, one of the many kinds of coffee is served at the Kumrang coffee shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. Pyongyang may be one of the few major cities left on Earth where you can't find a Starbucks, but it's brimming over with coffee shops. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge)

North Korea’s latest obsession

IT’S not what you’d expect to find people sipping on in Pyongyang, but North Korea is obsessed with a luxury drink.

Asia

08/06/2009 WIRE: In this photo taken June 3, 2009, a female North Korean soldier looks out from behind a barbed-wire fence around a camp on the North Korean river banks across from Hekou, northeastern China's Liaoning province. North Korea's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists, and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison, the country's state news agency reported Monday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Life in a North Korean prison camp

A MAN who escaped from a North Korean prison camp has exposed the truths of what it’s like growing up without freedom.

News Life

Men demand right to kill wives

A COUNTRY notorious for its treatment of women takes a step forward, but angry men claim domestic abuse is their God-given right.

Asia

Chinese military soldiers salute as the Chinese flag is raised during the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China 08/08/2008.

Secret China refuses to share

CHINA calls this information a state secret. Control over it is so tight that the world can only sit back and guess about the truth.

Asia

Philippine and US soldiers, along with visiting military attache members, salute as the national anthems of both the US and Philippines are played during the opening ceremony of the annual joint 11-day Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) military exercise in Manila on April 4, 2016. US and Philippine troops began major exercises on April 4 as China's state media warned "outsiders" against interfering in tense South China Sea territorial disputes. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE

Oz preps for South China Sea blow-up

AUSTRALIAN forces have joined thousands of US and Philippine troops near the disputed South China Sea to undertake joint military drills.

Asia

‘We will kill more people than 9/11’

A STATE-RUN newspaper in North Korea has issued a chilling message to the US, telling the nation to brace for bloodshed worse than 9/11.

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