The death toll in a fire that ripped through a hospital in China's capital Beijing has risen to 29, a city official said Wednesday

China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks, state media Xinhua reported yesterday.

A man accused of throwing an explosive at Japan’s prime minister had previously filed a lawsuit against the government, a court spokesman said yesterday.

The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the nation was racked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover, the UN said yesterday.

India's Supreme Court today questioned the paroles granted to 11 convicts during their incarceration in the infamous Bilkis Bano gang-rape case relating to the 2002 Gujarat state riots and said the gravity of the offence could have been considered by the state.

A landslide during a thunder and lightning storm on the main road through northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pass buried more than 20 trucks on Tuesday, killing at least two people, with dozens more feared trapped, officials said.

Eleven people died of heatstroke in India after an estimated one million spectators waited for hours in the sun at a government-sponsored awards ceremony, officials said yesterday.

Gunmen seemingly posing as journalists shot dead a former Indian member of parliament and his brother live on TV as they were being taken in handcuffs to hospital by police, authorities said.

Iranian police said on Sunday authorities had closed more than 150 businesses in 24 hours for not respecting the obligation for women to wear headscarves under Iran's strict Islamic dress code.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan yesterday.

G7 allies met yesterday for two days of “difficult” climate talks in northern Japan, facing pressure to show progress on key fossil fuel commitments in an example to other major economies including China.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday directed the central bank to issue funds for provincial snap polls, a court order said, a day after parliament ruled against provision of the money, deepening a discord between the judiciary and the government amid months of economic and political turmoil.

India’s financial crime-fighting agency has opened an investigation into alleged violations of foreign exchange rules by the BBC, a source told Reuters yesterday, months after tax officials searched the broadcaster’s Mumbai and Delhi offices.

Pakistan’s government yesterday rejected a panel set up and headed by the chief justice that is due to rule on a draft law clipping his powers, claiming conflict of interest, the latest standoff amid months of economic and political turmoil.

A sessions court in Surat in India's Gujarat today said it will give its ruling on April 20 regarding a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who is seeking a stay on his conviction.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), criticised for its inaction over the deepening Myanmar crisis, yesterday strongly condemned air strikes that reportedly killed dozens of people

India’s enforcement directorate (ED) today filed a case against BBC India for alleged violation of foreign exchange rules, the directorate’s officials said..The case was registered under stringent Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), reports our New Delhi correspondent..The enforc

A search was underway for three Nepali climbers who fell into a crevasse while ascending Everest yesterday, the first such accident on the world’s highest mountain this climbing season.

Elon Musk said yesterday he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of PM Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India.

China’s President Xi Jinping called on the country’s armed forces to “strengthen military training oriented towards actual combat”, state media reported yesterday, after Beijing conducted military drills intended to intimidate Taiwan.