Asia

Kunduz (Afghanistan): Taliban fighters entered the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday, almost exactly a year after they briefly seized it in their...

Stockholm/London: Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key...

Sydney: Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Sunday the names of those responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine...

Beijing: The world's longest and highest glass bridge in China's Hunan province has been reopened for public after clearing a security inspection,...

Manila: Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to IS freed three more Indonesian captives on Sunday after a three-month ordeal, the Philippine government said, taking the...

LASHKAR GAH (Afghanistan): Taliban militants have advanced closer to Lashkar Gah, capital of the strategic southern province of Helmand, pushing into a...

BANGKOK: Confirmation that the Zika virus had caused microcephaly in Thailand is not likely to scare off large numbers of Chinese tourists due to jet in for...

Manila: A self-confessed Philippine hitman who testified that President Rodrigo Duterte had personally issued assassination orders while a city mayor said...

Beijing: Millions of Chinese tourists are packing their bags for distant and not-too distant shores for the National Day holiday, with early indicators...

Seoul: Three Chinese fishermen were killed on Thursday in a fire that broke out on their boat when South Korean coastguard men trying to apprehend them for...