A fire tore through a karaoke lounge in southern China yesterday, killing 18 people and injuring another five, as authorities arrested a

Pakistan's powerful military, long accused by outsiders of backing Islamist militant groups, is facing an unexpected challenge -- a

China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers' meeting of a

Police in a southern Chinese city catches a man suspected of setting a fire at a three-story building that killed 18 people and injured five others.

A bus crash in North Korea has killed 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, the foreign ministry in Beijing said yesterday. Two

China yesterday reassured Pakistan that relations between the two countries were as firm as ever and would "never rust", ahead of a

South Korea halts the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border at North Korea ahead of their first summit in a decade, as US President Donald Trump cautioned the nuclear crisis on the peninsula was a long way from being resolved.

A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world's oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Yesterday. Nabi Tajima, who

The family of a Myanmar policeman who testified in court that two Reuters reporters had been set up was evicted from their police

At least 14 suspected Maoist guerillas were killed yesterday in a gunfight in India's western state of Maharashtra, police said, yet another

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at

School students are warned against cyberbullying, in the recent safety guidelines published by Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.

​A suicide bomber strIkes a voter registration center in the Afghan capital, killing at least 48 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China overturns and 17 people drowns, the official Xinhua news agency reports.

A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warns as US and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks.

Commonwealth countries have unanimously committed to take action on cybersecurity between now and 2020. In a major announcement at the

Not in the slightest. Kim explicitly said that the possession of nuclear weapons was "the firm guarantee by which our descendants can

Kathmandu airport was closed after a Malaysian jet with 139 people on board aborted its takeoff and skidded off the runway, officials say.

An Indian man missing for 40 years has had an emotional reunion with his family after a YouTube video of him singing a popular Bollywood song went viral.

North Korea has expressed its commitment to "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula and is not seeking conditions, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday, as the United States vowed to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang.