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• More than 200 missing in flood-hit district in Pakistan, official says

  Hundreds are reported missing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as a result of devastating floods.

• Watch: Plane makes emergency landing on Australian golf course

  Video shows the aircraft flying over the golf course before crash landing, as the pilot and passenger escaped without major injuries.

• Beyond chow mein: Can a new wave of restaurants help China win hearts?

  As an authoritarian China tries other forms of soft power, a sumptuous table may be a useful draw.

• Blackpink: K-pop band make 'epic Wembley dream' come true

  The quartet have become the first Korean girl group to headline a concert at London's Wembley Stadium.

• Are mangoes good for diabetes? Indian studies challenge conventional wisdom

  Two Indian trials suggest that controlled mango consumption, instead of carbs, may improve blood sugar in diabetes.

• Fears of starvation in Myanmar as UN warns of 'disaster'

  "There is no income. Most people survive now by eating boiled taro roots," one person told the BBC.

• Flash floods kill more than 300 in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir

  The majority of deaths were recorded in Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area.

• An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show

  The Burmese curators of the show, which contained Tibetan, Uyghur and Hong Kong art, have fled to the UK.

• Australia to close loophole in screening system for childcare workers

  The move comes after a spate of high-profile abuse cases in the childcare sector.

• 'Please find my daughter': Grief and chaos after flash floods in Kashmir

  At least 60 people have been killed in the flash floods and dozens still remain missing.

• More than 300 ill in Indonesia after eating free school lunches

  This is the largest spate of food poisonings to hit Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme.

• F1 tycoon fined $23,000 in Singapore gift scandal

  Ong Beng Seng had given expensive gifts to an ex-minister, including an all-expenses paid trip to Qatar.

• Watch robot athletes compete in world's first humanoid games

  Teams from 16 countries are competing in a range of sports including football, athletics and dance as part of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China.

• How does Japan remember the end of WW2?

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

• 'We were never friends': A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations

  Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.