A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organisation said yesterday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.

Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak was questioned by anti-corruption authorities yesterday after his shock election loss, as the top graft fighter revealed he faced threats and a bullet in the post when the old regime suppressed a probe into a massive corruption scandal.

The death toll from an outbreak of the rare Nipah virus in southern India jumped to 10 yesterday with more than 90 people quarantined

Nearly 400 African migrants, short of food and water, were found by a search-and-rescue team in the Sahara last week, the International

Campaign group Amnesty International says it has gathered evidence that insurgents from a Rohingya Muslim armed group killed scores of Hindu civilians in August last year, amid a surge in violence in western Myanmar.

A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organisation says, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.

At least ten people die of a disease caused by a virus found in fruit bats in the southern Indian state of Kerala, a senior functionary of the state says.

Scandal-tainted former Malaysian leader Najib Razak arrives at the anti-corruption agency for questioning over a massive financial scandal that helped to bring down his long-ruling regime.

All Chinese mosques should raise the national flag to "promote a spirit of patriotism" among Muslims, the country's top Islamic

A deadly virus carried mainly by fruit bats has killed at least three people in southern India, sparking a statewide health alert yesterday.

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 26 after a person died in the northwest city of

"Golden Triangle" countries must address corruption and collaborate more closely to tackle record meth production and the gangs who

India yesterday successfully test-fired a supersonic cruise missile from a test range along the Bay of Bengal coast to validate some of

A Japanese climber, who lost nine fingertips to frostbite in a previous expedition, died during an attempt to climb Mount Everest, an official says, the second person to die on the world’s highest mountain during the current climbing season.

A Muslim man accused of killing a cow was beaten to death by a mob in central India, police said Sunday, the latest vigilante murder over

Malaysia's scandal-tainted former leader yesterday denied he stole public funds and complained of the way he has been treated since

Sri Lanka's president has warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after

Indian opposition parties have joined forces to snatch power from the country's ruling party in a big southern state, laying the stage

Maoist rebels killed six policemen yesterday with a roadside bomb in a remote forest in eastern India. Another officer was injured when

An Indian diplomat convicted of passing state secrets to Pakistan's intelligence services has been jailed for three years, her lawyer said