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-- 2019-01-03 10:38:51
A Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed. Gao Chengyong, dubbed ‘Jack the Ripper’ by Chinese media, followed his victims h...
-- 2019-01-02 16:48:11
The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the central Philippines triggered by a tropical depression climbed to 85, officials said on Wednesday, and 20 people were missing as rescuers s...
-- 2019-01-02 12:41:36
Indonesian rescue teams were searching for victims of a series of landslides that killed at least 15 people on New Year’s Day, officials said, after a year of natural disasters killed thousands....
-- 2019-01-02 11:25:53
Two women defied a centuries-old ban on entering a Hindu temple in India’s southern state of Kerala in the early hours of Wednesday, the state’s chief minister said, raising fears of a bac...
-- 2019-01-02 11:24:24
Taiwan independence would lead to “disaster”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, pledging efforts for peaceful “reunification” with the self-ruled island but warni...
-- 2019-01-01 16:39:01
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Comm...
-- 2019-01-01 15:28:50
Thailand’s king will be officially crowned in elaborate ceremonies on May 4-6 as the latest ruler in the centuries-old monarchy, the royal palace said on Tuesday. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66,...
-- 2019-01-01 14:51:50
An Afghan official says the Taliban launched two blistering attacks in northern Sar-e-Pul province, killing 15 members of the country's security forces. In one attack, on the outskirts of the provinc...
-- 2019-01-01 14:04:19
History shows that cooperation is the best choice for both China and the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a congratulatory message on Tuesday to mark 40 ye...
-- 2019-01-01 12:06:51
Landslides on Indonesia’s heavily populated island of Java killed at least two people and left 41 missing, an official at the country’s disaster agency said on Tuesday. The landslides, wh...
-- 2019-01-01 10:07:19
A minivan slammed into pedestrians in the early hours of Tuesday on a street where people had gathered for New Year’s festivities in Japan’s downtown Tokyo, injuring eight people, police s...
-- 2018-12-31 21:21:17
Some called it the Outback Uber - ten cane toads have been caught riding a python, reports BBC. Paul Mock of Kununurra in the far north of Western Australia filmed the bizarre sight after a heavy thu...
-- 2018-12-31 17:11:02
Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Philippines in a weekend storm that set off landslides and flash floods as the country prepared for the New Year, officials said Monday. The national disas...
Reuters 2018-12-31 14:32:05
Taliban representatives from Afghanistan arrived in Tehran on Sunday and started peace negotiations with Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has said. The talks are designed to set parameters fo...
-- 2018-12-31 14:03:26
Iraq’s prime minister said on Sunday that top security officials from Baghdad had met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and hinted at a bigger Iraqi role fighting Islamic State milit...
-- 2018-12-30 19:54:44
A top official at a state-run Indian university urged his students to “murder” fellow students if confronted instead of complaining to him, amid a wave of violence being reported from acro...
-- 2018-12-30 14:40:21
At least eleven people have been killed in clashes in Bangladesh as the country votes in a general election. The build-up to the poll has already been marred by violence and accusations of a crackdow...
-- 2018-12-29 13:03:39
A strong earthquake of 6.9 magnitude struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, raising fears of dangerous tsunami waves across the region but after about two hours, the tsunam...
-- 2018-12-28 21:34:29
Syria's military says it has taken control the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened offensive, reports AP. The announcement Friday came shortly after the main Syrian K...
-- 2018-12-28 17:52:29
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked on Friday after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal computer...
-- 2018-12-28 17:42:59
Pakistan's Supreme Court has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister and several other suspects in connection with a money laundering case. Friday's development was the latest blow to...
-- 2018-12-28 17:33:48
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as 3 trillion rupees ($42.82 bill...
-- 2018-12-28 17:23:07
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including a new foreign minister, after the international fallout from the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal K...
-- 2018-12-28 15:25:48
Bahrain says it will resume operations at its embassy in Syria some seven years after it shuttered its embassy in Damascus in the early days of the civil war. The move, announced one day after the Un...
-- 2018-12-28 15:21:04
Indian airports will be able to use body scanners from next year and spare “clean” passengers physical frisking, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) said. The BCAS is soon going...
-- 2018-12-28 12:40:34
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, causing nervous residents to panic about a week after a tsunami killed hundre...
-- 2018-12-27 21:19:50
Thousands of Taiwanese, taking a page from France's yellow vest movement, protested on Thursday for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of tax disputes, reports AP. W...
Reuters 2018-12-27 12:37:26
A Chinese court will try a Canadian citizen on drugs charges on Saturday, a government-run news portal said, in a case that could further test already difficult relations between Beijing and Ottawa....
-- 2018-12-27 11:10:17
Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest, and ordered all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at leas...
-- 2018-12-27 10:47:47
Iraqi political and militia leaders condemned US President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, and lawmakers said a meetin...
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