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• DeepSeek: How China's 'AI heroes' overcame US curbs to stun Silicon Valley

  How did a little-known Chinese start-up build a powerful new AI model despite restrictions?

• South Korea plane fire causes mass evacuation

  All 176 people are evacuated from the burning plane at Busan's airport, with four injuries reported.

• 'We are stuck in a materialistic world. At the Kumbh, we renounce that'

  Over a million people are camping out in the cold for a month on the banks of the Ganges river.

• 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.

• China's DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America's swagger

  The app spooked the markets as well as the bullish sense of American superiority in AI development.

• Friends reunited? Trump faces a very different Kim Jong Un this time

  Trump said last week that he'll 'reach out' again - but the North Korean leader’s situation has changed

• Trump says India 'will do what's right' on illegal immigration

  Trump and Modi spoke on Monday, their first interaction since the US president took office last week.

• DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking

  A Chinese startup has built a low-cost AI model using less technologically advanced chips.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.