At least 10 people were injured when fireworks were shot from a moving car into a crowd of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Video on social media showed people running for cover as fiery trails were shot towards them outside a police station in Tin Shui Wai district. The

Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls have clashed in a televised US debate that laid bare the party's deep divisions over how best to win in 2020. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the most liberal candidates in the crowded field, came under attack from their more moderate

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to South Korea's military, the second such launch in a week. The two missiles were launched from the Wonsan area early on Wednesday. Last week's launch was the first such action since US

DHAKA: A toddler in Chongqing, China has survived a six-storey fall after he was caught by passers-by holding out a large blanket.  State broadcaster CCTV reported that he had no injuries. BBC BDST: 1220 HRS, JULY 31, 2019 RS  

The pound has continued to fall on currency markets as the government insists that the UK is prepared to leave the EU without a deal. Sterling fell in overnight trade in Asia to a two-year low of $1.2152 against the dollar. The currency also lost ground against the euro, falling to

The personal details of about 106 million individuals across the US and Canada were stolen in a hack targeting financial services firm Capital One, the company has revealed. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was arrested on Monday after reportedly boasting about the breach online.

At least 57 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil which saw rival gangs battle for five hours, officials say. Gang members from one prison block invaded another part of Altamira jail in Pará state. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated and the remainder suffocated after

At least 17 people have been killed after a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, rescue officials have said. Five crew members and 12 civilians are dead, officials told local media. Another 12 people have been injured. The

At least 20 people have been killed in an attack targeting the Kabul office of vice-presidential election candidate Amrullah Saleh. Fifty other people were injured in the attack on the Green Trend office in the capital on Sunday. The violence came on the first day of campaigning for

China has condemned the recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong as "horrendous incidents" that have caused "serious damage to the rule of law". "We hope that... people will stand firm in defence of the rule of law," a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office [HKMAO]

Three people have been killed and 15 injured after a gunman attacked a food festival in California. The gunman was shot dead by police shortly after he began firing, although police are investigating reports that a second suspect may still be at large. The Gilroy Garlic Festival was

At least 65 people are dead following a suspected attack by Boko Haram on a funeral gathering in northeastern Nigeria, according to local officials. The attack occurred Saturday during a burial in the Nganzai district, near the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, local government chairman

An air strike has killed five doctors in a hospital in the southern outskirts of Libya's capital Tripoli, an official from the UN-backed government says. A warplane belonging to Khalifa Hafta, the rogue general who commands the Libyan National Army, carried out the attack, the

Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused US President Donald Trump of "racist attacks" in his tweets about an African-American lawmaker. Mr Trump attacked Democratic Rep Elijah Cummings and his Maryland district on Twitter. The president described Mr Cummings'

John Robert Schrieffer, a physicist who shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a pioneering theory of superconductivity, has died. He was 88. Family members say Schrieffer died in his sleep at a nursing facility Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida, where he had been a

Police in Moscow have detained more than 1,000 people at a rally, in one of the biggest crackdowns in years. Demonstrators were dragged away from the city hall as security forces used batons against the crowd. People were protesting against the exclusion of opposition candidates

Police in the Russian capital Moscow have detained some 300 people at an unauthorised protest against the exclusion of many opposition candidates from forthcoming local elections. Protesters were dragged away from the city hall while others were corralled into nearby streets. Some

The US and Guatemala have signed a migration agreement, days after US President Donald Trump threatened the Central American country with tariffs. Under the deal, migrants from Honduras and El Salvador who pass through Guatemala would be required to stop and seek asylum there first.

The US Supreme Court has said that President Donald Trump can use $2.5 billion (£2 billion) of Pentagon funds for a section of wall on the southern border. The court ruled by five votes to four to block a ruling by a federal judge in California that barred the president from spending

Eight people were killed and dozens injured when twin earthquakes struck islands in the northern Philippines early Saturday while many were still asleep, local officials said. Both tremors hit the province of Batanes, a group of sparsely populated islets north of the nation’s