The Wuzhou Mountains near the city of Datong, west of Beijing, are home to the Yungang Grottoes, a Unesco World Heritage site featuring more than 50,000 ancient clay Buddhas.

Jacqueline Smith journeys beyond Beijing's drab outskirts to admire a vast gallery of Buddhas.

Rated as one of the world's top three aviation events, the Singapore Airshow brings together the globe's aviation community to trade.

One of the biggest stars of CES this year - or the biggest if you listen to the hordes of Android fanboys - was Lenovo's K91 Android TV.

Kieran Nash takes to the air above the South China Sea.

Is there an 'unhealthy correlation' between skyscraper building booms and economic collapse? One bank thinks so...

Getting to North Korea is, in reality, easy and it is certainly the oddest country, but is not for everyone writes Chris Pritchard.

Bhutan is small and spectacularly isolated, tucked away in the eastern Himalayas between India and China.

This stunningly-situated monastery, perched high in Bhutan's mountains, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites.

Andrew Stone surveys some of the more remarkable trends and breakthroughs which may - or may not - come to pass next year

Earthquake linked us with Japan in a year of loss but the scale of the destruction on March 11 was overwhelming

Charlotte and Mauricio continue on to the Laotian city of Luang Prabang before heading to Thailand.