Solar Impulse-2, a project co-founded by a Swiss businessman and an aeronaut, took off from Abu Dhabi early on Monday.
Such changes in policy suggest some foreign banks are preparing for a rise in defaults in the world's second-largest economy.
The world has made strides in gender equality but it still has much further to go, activists say.
India’s rate of sexual assault has earned the attention of the entire world, and reports have skyrocketed this year.
Three crude bombs exploded in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar just minutes after Sheik Hasina's convoy passed through the business district.
The airport in Kathmandu was closed because a crashed Turkish jet blocked its lone runway, stranding more than 24,000 travelers.
Look back at who was on Flight 370, when it disappeared and what's happened since then.
The Chinese smartphone maker faces rising competition in key markets as it chases the 100 million-unit milestone.
"Fifty Shades of Grey" has topped $500 million in worldwide box-office earnings sans massive success in Japan or South Korea.
Hundreds of riot police are patroling Dimapur, the main city in India’s Nagaland state.
Holi, which marks the start of spring, is famous for its celebrations involving colored powder.
The Korean electronics maker is considering an expansion of its manufacturing facilities on the subcontinent.
By Thursday night, the documentary's original link posted by the BBC had been viewed over 100,000 times.
More Valley technologists are heading to Asian companies, taking their careers, and their new employers, in bold new directions.
BBC aired a controversial film in the U.K. about a 2012 New Delhi rape after the Indian government barred its India broadcast.
After Mayor de Blasio included two Muslim feasts in the school holiday calendar, Hindus ask: Why not Diwali?
India's leader has conceded to changes to his his land acquisitions amendment bill to ensure safe passage in parliament.
The driver, who claimed to be affiliated to Uber, also overcharged customers and demanded to be paid in cash.
The film features one of the convicts from the New Delhi gang-rape case of December 2012.
The increase in expenditure comes at a time when China is faced with the prospect of deflation resulting from record-low economic growth.
Young Indian professionals are happy with their Windows smartphones and could upgrade to Microsoft's new Lumias.
Those found guilty in possession or sale of beef can be fined or jailed up to five years.