Meureudu, Indonesia: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as...
Meureudu, Indonesia: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as...
Yangon: Myanmar has stopped sending workers to Muslim-majority Malaysia as relations sour over a bloody military crackdown on the Buddhist country's Rohingya minority....
KABUL: Brushing aside suicide bombings and public scorn, the young women of Afghanistan's first freestyle cycling club hope their pop-a-wheelies, bunnyhops and backflips...
Lampung, Indonesia: It was the middle of the night when the villagers sounded the alarm: a huge Sumatran elephant was raiding their rice...
JAKARTA: At least 25 people were killed and dozens were missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the northern Indonesian province of Aceh...
NEW DELHI: A train ran off the tracks in India's eastern state of West Bengal, killing at least two people and injuring six,...
Kabul: 38 Taliban armed militants, including some commanders, were killed during air and ground raids conducted by the Afghan security forces. The provincial...
Tokyo: A suspected serial hair-snipper has been arrested in Japan after being accused of stealing tresses from unsuspecting women on rush-hour trains. Police...
Jakarta: Indonesia has extended legal protection for its wetlands and peat bogs by expanding a ban on the conversion of these carbon-rich swamps...
Kabul: A commander of the loyalists of ISIS group was killed along with another militant in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The Ministry...
Jayalalitha Jayaram, a former film actress who became the powerful four-term leader of one of India's largest states, died on December 5, apparently...
Bangkok: Days of torrential rain and flooding have killed at least 14 people in southern Thailand, with authorities declaring much of the region...
Islamabad: A Pakistani court has charged the brother of a slain social media star with her murder, the final step before a trial...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans to rename a university centre for physicist Abdus Salam, its first Nobel laureate, after more than 30 years of all...
BANGKOK: Thailand's new king appointed three new members to his powerful royal advisory council on Tuesday and removed some former members in one...
Dhaka: Around 21,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape violence in neighbouring Myanmar, an official of the International Organisation...
BEIJING: China authorities revealed Tuesday that 11 workers were trapped in the latest gas explosion to hit a coal mine in the country....
ZAMBOANGA CITY, the Philippines: Philippine security forces said Tuesday that explosives were recovered during raids targeting a Islamic State-linked armed group in troubled...
