A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat and the Southeast Asian nation’s government said Thursday.

The World Health Organization yesterday (October 5, 2022) issued an alert over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals of India, warning they could be linked to acute kidney injuries and deaths of 66 children in Gambia, Africa.

An explosion hit a mosque in Afghanistan's capital near the heavily fortified interior ministry compound on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 25, a ministry spokesman said.

A blast hit a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital in the vicinity of the heavily fortified interior ministry compound yesterday, officials said,killing at

Myanmar’s junta leader has not been invited to a regional summit next month, host Cambodia said yesterday, in a fresh diplomatic snub for the

At least 31 people were killed after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India, police said yesterday.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday ruled out talks with Pakistan and said the Modi government will wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir to make it the “most peaceful place in the country” and assured the holding of fresh assembly polls in the area with “full transparency”.

South Korea and the US military conducted rare missile drills and an American supercarrier repositioned east of North Korea after Pyongyang flew a missile over Japan, one of the allies’ sharpest responses since 2017 to a North Korean weapon test.

An Indian-origin doctor, who was in Ukraine when the conflict with Russia broke out in February, has approached the Indian government -- in an unusual plea -- to help rescue his pet jaguar and panther he left behind when he was forced out of the war zone.

Twenty-five people were killed as a bus carrying a wedding party of nearly 50 persons fell into a gorge in north Indian state Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district yesterday (October 4, 2022), the Indian media reported today (October 5, 2022).

At least four mountaineers were killed yesterday in an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas, with around 25 others stuck in a crevasse, officials said.

The chief of the prison service in Indian Kashmir has been murdered, police said yesterday, as the powerful interior minister visited the disputed Himalayan region that has been riven by a decades-long insurgency.

Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile farther than ever before yesterday, sending it soaring over Japan, for the first time in five years, and prompting a warning for residents there to take cover.

Elite Indonesian police officers were under investigation yesterday over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

Ten mountaineers died in an avalanche that swept a peak in the Himalayas in north Indian state of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district today, officials said.

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan.

India yesterday unveiled its first batch of locally-made attack helicopters, designed primarily for use in high-altitude areas like the Himalayas where its troops clashed with China in 2020.

A Pakistani court yesterday accepted an apology tendered by former prime minister Imran Khan and dropped a contempt of court case against him, his defence lawyer said, a ruling that ease the threat to him of disqualification from politics.

Forty-six girls and young women were among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, the UN said yesterday as it announced the total death toll had risen to 53.