Security camera footage shows doctors shielding a patient on the operating table as last month’s magnitude 6.8 quake shook Kumamoto General Hospital.

President William Lai took part in an emergency evacuation drill as part of Taiwan military exercises preparing for a potential Chinese invasion.

Umit, a female Amur tiger, has been released as part of a programme to restore the animal’s population, which was wiped out in central Asia a century ago.

As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.

There have been at least 19 deaths related to the heatwave which has brought the country’s hottest day since records began.

A Malaysian pilot was arrested at Jakarta airport after being found with around four stone (26kg) of drugs hidden in his luggage.

The BBC is the first media organisation to gain access to the city and speak to people on the ground in Rawalakot.

Three bodies have been recovered so far, with the search continuing for the remaining seven.

Aeon shopping mall and the Nippon Paper Industries factory both suffered significant damage.

Search teams are still looking for survivors in the collapsed Aeon shopping centre.

At least 13 people were killed after the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday, but the death toll is expected to rise.

At least 13 people have been killed after the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday.

Video shows locations across the region where a strong earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu island on 28 July.

Typhoon Noul is the strongest to make landfall in China so far this year, according to state media.

The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has called off its protest, hours after the resignation of India’s education minister

Crowds at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar are elated after India’s education minister stepped down. The BBC’s Vikas Pandey reports.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Delhi as part of the cockroach protests, calling for educational reforms.

India is seeing one of its biggest protests in recent years. But why did it start? And why is the mascot a cockroach? Here’s what you need to know.

Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi says she survives on zero to three hours a night, and people are reacting.

After nearly five hours, officials captured the animal and it was later released back into the wild, local authorities confirmed.