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• How a kabaddi club in India is changing girls' lives

  A kabaddi club has helped Indian girls find new opportunities and become financially independent as adults.

• Friends reunited? Trump and Kim Jong-Un's curious relationship will play out differently this time

  Trump said last week that he'll 'reach out' - but Washington faces a very different Kim this time around

• Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets

  Share prices in US and European firms fall as the Chinese technology threatens to disrupt the AI industry.

• Top executives resign over Japanese TV host's sex scandal

  Companies have pulled advertisements from Fuji TV, which was criticised for covering up the scandal.

• Bird feathers found in engines of crashed Jeju Air jet

  A preliminary investigation report on December's crash that killed 179 people has been released.

• Impeached S Korean president charged with insurrection

  The unprecedented indictment means Yoon Suk Yeol faces decades in prison if convicted.

• China hands death sentence to man who killed Japanese boy

  It is the latest punishment imposed by the Chinese authorities following a series of mass attacks.

• Bank of Japan raises rates to highest in 17 years

  The move comes hours after economic data showed prices rose last month at the fastest pace in 16 months.

• ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders for 'persecuting Afghan girls and women'

  Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for the Taliban government's Supreme Leader and chief justice.

• Watch: 'I do', say Thai couples as country legalises same-sex marriage

  The BBC spoke to couples who married at a Bangkok mall to ask what the legalisation means to them.

• Nepal hits Everest climbers with higher permit fees

  The price to climb the world's tallest peak will soon increase for the first time in almost a decade.

• Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands

  A livestream of an endangered plant's rare bloom in Sydney has captivated the internet.

• Three children drown every day in India's wetlands. But mothers are fighting back

  Mothers in the harsh Sundarbans delta are battling the rising tide of child drownings.

• The long road to legalise same sex marriage in Thailand

  LGBT couples now have the same rights as any other couple - the culmination of a decades-long campaign.

• Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US

  Several Afghans tell the BBC the US has "turned its back" on them, despite years of working alongside Americans in Afghanistan.