The greater adjutant stork used to be an object of revulsion in northeast India; its fortunes may turn on local pride
Despite Yemen's civil war, migrants from Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia are streaming in, hoping to make their way to wealthy Saudi Arabia
Police in Bangladesh's capital have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters demanding cancellation of a plan for a massive coal-fired power plant near ecologically sensitive mangrove forests on the coast
An Indian court has acquitted top Bollywood star Salman Khan on a charge of using unlicensed weapons while hunting for rare blackbucks in a western India wildlife preserve 18 years ago
A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad has killed at least 23 people, the latest in a series of assaults blamed on the Islamic State group
A coal mine collapse in eastern India killed at least 10 workers and 13 others may be trapped by the mound of fallen earth, police said
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a massive memorial of a medieval warrior king that's expected to cost billions of rupees and has come under criticism from environmental activists and others
India's leader says his country will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change early next month
Two people were killed and several others were injured as police tried to stop protests against the demolition of homes near an Indian rhino sanctuary, police said
Wildlife officials are trying to bring an elephant to a safari park outside Bangladesh's capital after it was carried from India to Bangladesh by raging floodwaters and became stuck in a swampy area
