Police yesterday cracked down on Hong Kong democracy activists saying they would be charged over the Umbrella

South Korean prosecutors yesterday sought an arrest warrant for ousted president Park Geun-Hye, days after

Over 100 Indian fishermen were allegedly apprehended and around 18 of their boats seized by Pakistan Maritime

Two terrorists were killed yesterday when they tried to ambush a police party that included three officers of the rank of

Pakistan's military has begun fencing parts of its disputed northwestern border with Afghanistan to curb the

Hong Kong's new leader Carrie Lam yesterday pledged to mend political rifts after winning a vote dismissed as a

Accidents at two neighbouring gold mines in central China's Henan province killed 11 people on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency

Chronic food shortages and malnutrition are widespread in North Korea, a UN-led report said, as a senior official appealed to donors not

China's defence minister was to arrive in Nepal later yesterday for talks on joint military exercises, a meeting that will be closely

A "berserk" crowd used bows and arrows, knives and axes to hack to death seven people including two small children accused of sorcery,

The embryonic cells of the mango brought back by manned spacecraft Shenzhou XI last November after the 33-day space mission have now grown new tissues at a lab in South China's Hainan province.

A woman unable to become pregnant with her own eggs due to illness has given birth to a baby conceived using a donated egg from an anonymous third party, a Kobe-based nonprofit organization that mediated between them announces.

A new North Korean missile test failed yesterday, the South and US said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched four

Government officials say one student has died and 20 others were injured following a stampede during a morning bathroom break at an elementary school in central China.

A young couple in Kedah of northwest Malaysia decides to go against traditional norms by wearing their secondary school uniforms as bridal outfits on their wedding day.

South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye was questioned by prosecutors yesterday about the corruption and

China has said it will give a global push to its ambitious Silk Road initiative after a UN Security Council resolution

Some climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest during the upcoming spring climbing season will be strapped with a

The president of mainly Muslim Pakistan has signed into law a bill allowing the Hindu minority to register their

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches assets worth Rs 18.37 crore of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO based at Dongri in south Mumbai, in the Zakir Naik money laundering case.