SpaceX's Elon Musk elaborates on plan to colonize Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gives more details about his plan to colonize Mars.
25 October 2016

Ex-Thai PM Yingluck to fight order to pay $1b

Ousted Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday she would fight a junta order demanding she personally pay nearly $1
21 October 2016

We don't know if Mars lander 'survived': ESA

Mission controllers are in the dark about the fate of a tiny European craft despatched to Mars as a trial run for a rover to follow in a quest for life on the Red Planet.
20 October 2016

Outcry after girls made to train in pit with snake

The act of throwing a snake into a muddy pit with schoolgirls as part of character-building training has sparked condemnation. The instructors involved will be hauled up.
20 October 2016

China sends 2 astronauts to space lab: Xinhua

China launches two astronauts into space, official media says, on a mission to its orbiting laboratory as the country works towards setting up its own space station.
17 October 2016

Football: Thai clubs await fate as league cancelled to mourn king

The Football Association of Thailand says it will meet clubs to explain its decision to scrap the season with three matches to go following the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
16 October 2016

China to launch manned spacecraft: Xinhua

China is to launch a manned space mission, official media says, as the Asian giant works towards setting up its own space station.
16 October 2016

Crackdown widens in Rakhine

Towns and villages across northern Rakhine state were deserted yesterday, as terrified residents fled a deadly military crackdown on
14 October 2016

Grieving Thailand salutes late King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Huge crowds of weeping Thais and saluting soldiers lined the streets as the body of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej is borne through Bangkok, a day after his death left an apprehensive country facing an uncertain future.
14 October 2016

Maldives to leave Commonwealth

The Maldives said yesterday it will leave the Commonwealth, weeks after the organisation warned it could be suspended
13 October 2016

Myanmar police killed in attack on Bangladesh border

Two policemen are killed in coordinated attacks by an unknown group on posts along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh, an official and police say.
9 October 2016

Planet in star system nearest our Sun 'may have oceans'

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, researchers at France's CNRS research institute say.
6 October 2016

Malaysia frees Australia's 'Budgie Nine' after F1 stunt

Nine Australian men who provoked anger in Malaysia by donning skimpy swimwear bearing the Muslim country's national flag at a Formula 1 race are released without charge.
6 October 2016

You can go to hell

Firebrand Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte told US President Barack Obama to "go to hell" yesterday, as he threatened to end
4 October 2016

Myanmar scraps junta law to silence dissent

Myanmar yesterday scrapped a law used by the former military government to silence political activists, which threatened jail for
4 October 2016

Happy Birthday, SD Burman!

Legendary musician Sachin Dev Burman’s birthday is on October 1. His mother is Raj Kumari Nirmala Devi, the royal princess of Manipur and his father the second son of Ishanachandra Dev Burman, Maharaja of Tripura
1 October 2016

Rosetta sends the closest comet look before ending operations

The decade long Rosetta mission ends with the closest look at a comet ever, reports Space.com citing the European Space Agency (ESA).
1 October 2016

Formula 1: Rosberg quickest in fiery Malaysia practice

World championship leader Nico Rosberg strikes the first blow of the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend with the fastest lap in free practice on Friday, almost half-a-second quicker than Lewis Hamilton.
30 September 2016

I will show Nawaz how to respond to Modi at tomorrow's rally: Imran

Following Indian aggression on the Line of Control that killed two Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan tells reporters he will respond to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Raiwind March.
29 September 2016

Indian man bitten by python whilst posing for selfie

Indian forest department officials promise strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it.
29 September 2016