The US president has said Mr Abe nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize - a claim that Tokyo neither confirmed nor denied

The economic record for Mr Modi's first term in office is mixed

BJP's Smriti Irani defeated the Congress chief and sitting MP Rahul Gandhi by a margin of 55,120 votes

India's regional parties must now rethink their strategies and offer a more compelling economic and social vision

Narendra Modi, who is originally from Gujarat, chose Uttar Pradesh to make his debut as an MP in 2014 when he contested from the ancient city of Varanasi

Japanese names got out of step with their neighbours in the 19th century amid the growing influence of Western culture

Karaoke is popular in China and Beijing knows that songs are an effective way of conveying official thinking to young people

Prime Minister Modi and his BJP party, like US President Donald Trump, have focused on borders to shape a particular vision of India's future

The Prime Minister has visited the Himalayan shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva multiple times since taking office

A majority of Indians want nutritious food, affordable clothing and housing, health and education, which really should be the leading indicators of economic growth

Mr Kizer is a part of the New Wave Feminists group in Austin, Texas, that seeks to promote women's rights as a means of making abortion eventually "unthinkable and unnecessary"

The second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door

Australian politics is known to be rambunctious, with plain speaking considered a national trait

The job comes with a staff of more than 30,000, a seat at summits of EU leaders and the right to propose new European laws

Christian women - who come from a mostly poor and marginalised community - are seen to be particularly targeted by traffickers

More than a month since Sudan's long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was arrested by the military, crowds are still camped out - day and night 

Most of the men here work as farmers or labourers, earning a fraction of what the women can make as domestic workers or nannies overseas

Now that AAP and the Congress have failed to forge an alliance, the fight for the seven seats, presently held by the BJP, will be triangula

More than 10.17 crore voters will cast their votes to decided the fate of 979 candidates at 1.13 lakh polling stations

The last of the four differences between the conceptualization of the state in China and the West is regarding how they see their roles in the world

Political in-fighting and factionalism going all the way to the top of the Sri Lankan government is part of the reason warnings went unheeded

Nestled in the middle is the community of Reserve, where the risk of cancer is the highest in the country, 50 times the national average

Fayyaz claims his friends helped him to block a small road which he used as a runway for that first flight attempt in February

The organisation he led was considered one of the deadliest jihadist groups in the world, commanding thousands of fighters

The sound of laughter and singing echoes around the building, mixing with the beeping horns of the traffic outside

Vajiralongkorn is likely to remain burdened by old gossip about his personal life that has dogged him since returning from his education in England and Australia

The rains have restored freshwater marshes of southern Iraq — a region some scholars see as the biblical Garden of Eden

May Day rallies are also being held in the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar and elsewhere in Asia

In January 1989, upon his father's death, Emperor Akihito succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne

Fatema Chowdhury came to the UK from Bangladesh in 2010 and finished her law degree in 2014 at the University of London, said she was at one stage detained for a week after being accused of cheating

Their stories - and the struggle for the surviving children to comprehend the carnage - take the island down a devastatingly familiar path

Mohammad Hashim Madaniya has found out that her brother, Zahran Hashim, is the alleged ringleader of a group of suicide bombers who attacked churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

Some 32 Sri Lankan nationals are known to have joined IS in Iraq and Syria

The main roads in the small town of Amethi were choked with supporters when Rahul Gandhi turned up to file his nomination papers last week

The IS claim should be treated cautiously

Most of those killed are thought to be Sri Lankan nationals but officials say at least 31 foreigners are among the dead 

The book published by the Colour Creation has depicted the stories of the writers' journeys to the close vicinity of nature, culture, history, civilisation and people of China

The scenic spots with traditional features of Yangzhou, a historic and cultural place, overwhelmed the visiting foreign journalists and diplomats during the visit, writes Md Enamul Hassan

It's widely believed to have been prompted by concerns over China's economic ambitions in Europe