The BBC’s Yama Bariz travelled to a region devastated by the 6.0 magnitude earthquake.

At least 800 people have been killed and thousands injured in the east of the country after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday night.

Bird lovers dressed up and took to the stage to mimic rhythmic calls in a competition aimed at promoting conservation awareness.

The skies above southern Japan were illuminated late on Tuesday evening after dust or asteroid fragments burnt up in the atmosphere.

Emergency teams searching for the missing are struggling through mud and debris, following flash flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Passengers had to walk high above the ground to get back to the Singapore station after a power fault.

In Japan,15 August is a mourning occasion known as “Memorial Day for the End of the War”

Dozens of people have died as a result of the floodwaters, while others are feared missing.

Veer Singh and Kali Devi were away buying groceries when flash floods hit their village on Tuesday.

At the ceremony, Japan’s PM urged all countries to work towards nuclear disarmament.

A state media report said no casualties were caused when the tornado touched down in the region.

Hiroshima students have spent weeks visualising the stories of survivors from the atomic bomb and turning them into art.

Dozens are feared trapped after a cloudburst triggered floods in northern India’s Uttarakhand state.

Launch barges at a fireworks festival in Japan’s city Yokohama caught fire after pyrotechnics landed on them.

The BBC’s Stephen McDonell is in Miyun, one of the areas hardest-hit by the severe weather.

At least 30 people have been killed in floods that have inundated large parts of northeastern China.

Authorities and local hunters have practiced their response to potential bear attacks in a simulated drill.

People in Yunnan province, China have captured the moment a landslide caused debris and foliage to flow down the side of a mountain.

A tropical storm has been sweeping through South East Asia, intensifying a monsoon in the Philippines.

BBC Pakistan correspondent Azadeh Moshiri joined wildlife officials on their raids.