India celebrates the day the country gained independence after the partition of British India in 1947.

Asian are mostly higher after most stocks on Wall Street fell following a disappointing report that said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists had expected.

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

Here is a look at key dates since the Taliban returned to power four years ago, as United States and NATO forces withdrew from the country: ...