The United States says it is tightening the distribution of visas to Myanmar and Laos after both countries refused to accept their citizens deported from the country.

The death toll in a suicide bombing at an election rally in northwestern Pakistan rises to 20 as Taliban militants claimed responsibility, officials say, in the first major attack ahead of July 25 polls.

Liu Xia, the widow of Chinese Nobel dissident Liu Xiaobo who had been under de facto house arrest in China, left the country yesterday en route to Germany, according to friends.

Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches yesterday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan's worst weather-related disaster for decades.

The boys who were rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand have been given a clean bill of health by doctors.

World leaders and football stars joined the global outpouring of relief and congratulations at the astounding rescue of a young football team and their coach from a flooded Thai cave. Here are some of the reactions.

Rescuers free the last four of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave, a successful end to a perilous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks.

Audiences around the world cheer the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the saga generated suggestions of help, prayers and -- finally -- expressions of relief.

Liu Xia, the widow of late Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning political dissident Liu Xiaobo, leaves China on a flight to Berlin early today, one of her friends told Reuters.

China has jailed hundreds of officials for failing to tackle environmental violations uncovered during inspections last year, the environment ministry said in the latest round of the "war on pollution" led by President Xi Jinping.

All 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave have been rescued, a Thai navy SEAL unit says, after a successful end to a perilous mission that has gripped the world.

India's top court yesterday upheld death sentences for three men convicted over the notorious 2012 gang-rape and murder of a woman

Rescuers in Japan dug through mud and rubble yesterday, racing to find survivors after torrential rain unleashed floods and landslides

American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has proposed a mini-submarine to save the boys trapped inside a flooded Thai cave, floating the

Two Reuters reporters accused of breaking Myanmar's draconian secrecy law during their reporting of a Rohingya massacre must face

The first four boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand were in good health and demanding fried rice in hospital yesterday,

An Australian doctor convinced Thai officials to change their rescue plans and first get some of the weakest boys out of the cave

The first four boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand are in good health and demanding fried rice in hospital today, the head of the rescue team says, as divers resumes operations to bring out the remaining members of the group.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists of Thailand offer guidelines for treating the 13 footballers after they’re all rescued from the Chiang Rai cave.

Rescue workers in Thailand brings out four people today from a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks, apparently taking the total number rescued to eight.