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

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

Fears over North Korea's nuclear bomb hide a deeper truth, writes Jared Genser.

Dom Joly visits Hiroshima 66 years after his father witnessed the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb firsthand.