An Indian bus driver who let a monkey behind the wheel of his vehicle was suspended yesterday after a video of the incident went

Pakistani opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif was ordered jailed for 10 days yesterday after being arrested in a corruption case, his

Japanese troops stormed a beach in the Philippines yesterday in joint exercises with US and Filipino troops that officials said marked

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped to make progress on denuclearisation and a second US-North Korean summit as he

Interpol demanded an official "clarification" from China on the whereabouts of its missing police chief yesterday, after reports said he

Eight men with suspected terrorist links are rounded up in Malaysia for suspected activities that threatened national security.

As the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia is home to more than 800,000 mosques. Here are three of these unique places of worship.

A Seoul court jails former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges.

French police said yesterday they are probing the disappearance of the Chinese head of Interpol, who has reportedly been detained for questioning in his home country.

The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 yesterday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of "vast" unmet needs that have fuelled looting.

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing took to social media for the first time in months yesterday to apologise to fans and the Communist Party for tax evasion,

Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi's Minahasa regency emits a 4-kilometer column of ash, prompting authorities to raise the volcano's status to Level III (alert) of the four-level national volcano alert system.

Canada’s Parliament formally strips Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday replaced his defence minister in a cabinet reshuffle that otherwise left key government positions largely unchanged.

North Korea yesterday ruled out dismantling its nuclear arsenal in exchange for the US declaring an end to the Korean War, saying a peace treaty should "never be a bargaining chip."

An anti-money laundering body in the Maldives has informed police that President Abdulla Yameen received 22.5 million Maldivian rufiyaa ($1.5m) in hard currency days in advance of a contentious presidential election in the Indian Ocean island nation.

A suicide attack on a political rally in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 13 people yesterday, officials said, as the country braces for an escalation in violence ahead of this month's parliamentary election.

China expressed anger yesterday after a US Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the disputed South China Sea, saying it resolutely opposed an operation that it called a threat to its sovereignty.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday described Jews as "hook-nosed" and blamed them for creating the troubles in the Middle East.

Indonesia is in a race against time to save victims of a devastating earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi island, the government said yesterday, as the official death toll rose to more than 1,300 and looting fuelled fears of lawlessness.