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  • Renowned Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang when he was a young man, standing beside a blackboard

    Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate, dies at 103

    Renowned 1957 Nobel prize winner worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics
  • Christopher Cash leaves Westminster magistrates court in 2024

    ‘You’re in spy territory’: how two UK nationals got tangled in a Chinese espionage row

  • An artist’s impression of a large embassy of neoclassical design in limestone brick with two trees growing in a large central court

    China threatens UK with ‘consequences’ over delayed London mega embassy

  • Murayama expressing his ‘sincere apologies’ about Japan's role in the second world war at a news conference at his official residence on 15 August 1995.

    Tomiichi Murayama obituary

  • Cai Qi standing at a lectern covered in flowers with Chinese and South Korean flags behind him

    ‘A high-level operator’: Cai Qi’s rapid rise to become Xi Jinping’s right-hand man

  • Waves hit a shore

    Weather tracker: Japanese islands struck by two successive typhoons

  • Man in suit sitting in a desk in front of a microphone with a water bottle, disposable coffee cups and a box of tissues visible, wood-panelled wall in the background

    Who are Chen Zhi and the Prince Group, accused by the US and UK of large-scale scam operations?

  • A traditional Māori tattooing event at Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum, in Wellington, New Zealand

    New Zealand
    Ancient preserved heads give up their secrets as Māori tattoos see resurgence

  • Australian national Darcy Francesco Jenson is escorted as he is handed over to prosecutors at the Prosecutors Office in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, 15 October 2025.

    Indonesia
    Three Australians accused of premeditated murder in Bali villa could face the death penalty

  • Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, is pictured. He has died at the age of 90

    New Zealand
    Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, dies at 90

  • A mining machine is seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China

    China
    US may take strategic stakes in rare earths companies to tackle China ‘power grab’

  • Donald Trump and Narendra Modi in the White House in February 2025

    India
    India casts doubt on Trump’s claims that it has agreed to stop buying Russian oil

  • Kanchha Sherpa

    Mount Everest
    Last surviving member of first team to conquer Everest dies aged 92

  • Ashley Tellis with arms folded in a grey shirt in front of yellow curtains

    US national security
    Former Bush adviser charged with amassing top secret files

  • Thick, black smoke rises from the site of explosions in Kabul; there is a park-like open space in the foreground and buildings including apartment blocks, with a blue sky above.

    Afghanistan
    Dozens killed in fresh clashes along Afghanistan-Pakistan border

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