Asia

Sydney: A crocodile in Australia snatched a woman taking a late-night swim in a national park and is believed to have killed her, media reported on...

Bangkok: Thailand will lift a ban this week on overseas travel by some politicians, the defence minister said on Monday, more than two years after the...

Sydney: Mass coral bleaching has destroyed at least 35 per cent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists said on Monday, a...

Jabal Saraj( Afghanistan): After a break of 20 years, Afghanistan's first cement factory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as...

Manila: Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th president of the Philippines on Monday when a joint session of Congress declared him winner of a May 9 election,...

Ankara: Russia and Turkey do not have insurmountable problems, Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday, adding he thinks ties with Russia will be...

Beijing: Grappling with the world's biggest senior citizen population, China's President Xi Jinping held a high-level meeting with officials after...

Sydney: Australian police used pepper spray to break up clashes between rightwing nationalists and anti-racism protesters on the streets of Melbourne on...

Bangkok: Three foreign tourists were killed and a British man is missing after a speedboat crashed and capsized in bad weather near the southern Thai island...

Washington/Singapore: Hackers who stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank have been linked to an attack on a bank in the Philippines, in...