A journalist in India is facing charges over a report he wrote saying Muslims are banned from being yoga teachers under government policy.

Over 80 percent of the world’s city dwellers breathe poor quality air, with Dhaka being the third most polluted, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warns.

The Malaysian government is lifting the freeze on hiring foreign workers for four sectors. “In view of the acute shortage, we have to lift the suspension to allow these sectors to bring in foreign workers,” Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai says.

Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945.

India is facing the worst drought in decades, so when refused to draw water from a well due to caste hierarchy, one man took it upon himself to build his own.

The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to 31 yesterday with

A BBC reporter in North Korea was detained, interrogated for eight hours and eventually expelled over his reporting in the

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told a rare ruling party congress that his country was a "responsible" nuclear weapons state, with a no first-use policy and a commitment to non-proliferation, state media reported yesterday.

More than 400 rescuers were mobilised to search for 41 people missing after a landslide engulfed workers at a construction site in southeastern China early yesterday, state media reported.

Saudi King Salman replaced his long-serving oil minister on Saturday as part of a major government overhaul which comes as the kingdom grapples with a slump in energy revenues.

Two buses and a fuel tanker collide in Afghanistan's Ghazni province killing 73 people and injuring more than 50, officials say.

Search teams yesterday recovered the body of a Malaysian deputy minister in the Borneo island state of Sarawak near where a helicopter

Kim Jong-Un opened North Korea's first ruling party congress for nearly 40 years yesterday, with a defiant defence of the "magnificent"

At least 28 people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria, monitors say.

More than 30 people are injured as an Etihad Airways flight hit "severe and unexpected turbulence" flying into Indonesia, the airline says.

China has denied a request for a US carrier strike group led by the USS John C Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the US Defense

Islamic militants in the Philippines have beheaded a Canadian hostage, raising fears for more than 20 other foreigners held captive on

Philippine banks are seen to reexamine vulnerabilities to potential fraudsters in order to avoid a repeat of the $81-million money-laundering scandal that has now become a global spectacle.

Islamist extremists behead one of three foreigners they took from a high-end resort in the strife-torn southern Philippine island group of Mindanao last September, carrying out their threat to execute their hostages if they were not paid 900 million pesos (S$26 million) in ransom.

At least 23 people are dead after eating contaminated sweets in central Pakistan, police say.