Tokyo: Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic bomb,...
Tokyo: Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic bomb,...
Dhaka: Cyclone Mora battered Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing two people, ripping through camps housing Rohingya refugees and forcing 450,000 people to flee coastal...
GENEVA: The United Nations named a trio of independent experts on Tuesday to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by Myanmar...
MARAWI CITY, Philippines: Dozens of foreign jihadis have fought side-by-side with Islamic State sympathisers against security forces in the southern Philippines over the...
Sydney: A mother who fled conflict and admitted killing three of her children and attempting to murder a fourth by driving her car...
Seoul: North Korea on Tuesday boasted its test of a precision-guided missile was "successful", saying it had zeroed in within a few metres...
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as a cyclone lashed coastal areas on Tuesday, officials said, causing havoc in...
Kathmandu: Nepal on Monday postponed local elections for a second time after failing to appease ethnic minority groups who threatened to boycott the...
Jakarta: A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, US seismologists said, causing people to panic...
Bundu (Jharkhand): In a country where millions of degree holders struggle for employment, Dayanidhi Pradhan, 23, a Class 8 dropout in Jharkhand, dreams...
BHUBANESWAR, India: Summer thunderstorms in the run-up to the monsoon season killed at least 24 people and injured about a dozen in India’s...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair India's drifting partnership with Russia when he meets President Vladimir Putin this week,...
KATHMANDU: A 38-year-old Indian climber who made the fastest double ascent of Mount Everest and became the first woman to reach the highest...
SHANGHAI: China, battling increased threats from cyber-terrorism and hacking, will adopt from Thursday a controversial law that mandates strict data surveillance and storage...
MARAWI, Philippines: The Philippine city of Iligan was overflowing with evacuees and on lockdown on Monday over fears Islamist militants had sneaked out...
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday reinstalled a controversial statue deemed un-Islamic by religious hardliners on the grounds of the Supreme Court, just days after...
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported three cases of Zika virus-associated birth defects in India, all from Bapunagar area. The...
Yangon: Myanmar's ultra-nationalist Ma Ba Tha movement announced Sunday it was rebranding under a new name, days after Buddhist authorities banned the network...
