World / Asia

KABUL, Afghanistan: The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says 21 civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes over the weekend. It says in a...

New Delhi: India's top court Wednesday upheld the legality of the government's Aadhaar national identity project, the world's largest biometric database, but imposed...

BEIJING: China will crack down on government departments responsible for "zombie" websites that have not been updated for years, telephone lines that are...

Beijing: China expressed "strong dissatisfaction" on Tuesday over US plans to sell a batch of military parts to the self-governing island of Taiwan,...

Manila: A Philippine lawmaker fiercely critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war was arrested Tuesday on previously dismissed charges, a move condemned by...

Mumbai, An Indian passenger sparked panic in mid-air when he tried to open a plane door, apparently mistaking it for the toilet, the...

Bangkok, The bodies of a wealthy British retiree and his Thai wife were found buried on their own property Tuesday a week after...

KHAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani government official says gunmen have shot and killed a policeman assigned to protect polio workers in the country's northwest....

Koror, Palau, DHL heir and convicted drug trafficker Larry Hillbroom Jr was given permission Tuesday to leave the Pacific nation of Palau to...

Tokyo, Tokyo police said Tuesday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman suspected of dumping a stillborn baby's body in a coin locker, amid...

BEIJING: A senior Chinese official said on Tuesday that it is difficult to proceed with trade talks with the United States while Washington...

BANDUNG, Indonesia: Millions of landless peasants and indigenous people in Indonesia are being left out of an ambitious push by the government to...

KUALA LUMPUR:  The destruction of crops by a powerful typhoon will push people in the Philippines deeper into poverty and prolong recovery efforts,...

CANBERRA, Australia: A French ship on Monday rescued an Indian sailor who was injured in the remote southern Indian Ocean when his sailboat...

Vietnam's appointment of its first female president belies a deep gender imbalance in the communist country's politics and society and will do little...

NEW DELHI: India has vowed to stand firm on a multi-billion dollar deal to buy warplanes from France's Dassault Aviation, as the opposition...

Bandung, Indonesia, More than a dozen people have been arrested after supporters of a rival team clubbed an Indonesian football fan to death...

New Delhi: A solo Indian yachtsman trapped in his bunk by a serious back injury thousands of kilometres (miles) from land was rescued...