Asia

Kunduz(Afghanistan): Afghan security forces drove back Taliban insurgents attacking areas around the northern city of Kunduz, officials said on Saturday,...

Manila: Militants seized four Indonesian crew of a tugboat in the southern Philippines on Friday night, the third attack on slow moving vessels in about a...

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities moved inmate Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the radical cleric and alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings, to a high security...

Tokyo: Japanese rescuers were digging through the rubble of buildings and mud on Saturday to reach dozens believed trapped after a powerful 7.3 magnitude...

Kunduz (Afghanistan): Hundreds of Taliban insurgents have launched an offensive to seize the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, which they captured and held...

Seoul: North Korea attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of UN sanctions and...

Tokyo: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday morning, triggering a tsunami advisory. The quake's epicentre was near the...

Tokyo: Chacha the chimpanzee made his own great escape on Thursday, fleeing from a zoo in northern Japan and leading authorities on a dramatic chase. The...

Paro Vallery (Bhutan): Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge trekked on Friday to a Buddhist monastery on a mountainside in Bhutan, going one better...

Aboard the USS John C Stennis/Beijing: The chief US defence official visited an American aircraft carrier transiting the disputed South China Sea on Friday,...