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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday invited the United Nations' chief and international human rights experts to investigate allegations of widespread extrajudicial killings, but insisted they also face him in a public debate.

Islamic militants in the Philippines yesterday freed an Indonesian sailor abducted at sea, days after the gunmen released a Norwegian

A Bangladeshi businessman is deported from Malaysia allegedly for supplying arms to a terrorist organisation, local daily The Star reports today.

The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorised payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly once shot dead a justice department agent with an Uzi submachine gun while

A piece of aircraft wreckage found in June off Tanzania has been confirmed as coming from the doomed airliner MH370,

An explosion on a speedboat in Bali left two foreigners dead and 18 other tourists injured yesterday, sparking dramatic scenes as

Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body says it has issued a fatwa against intentionally starting forest fires in a bid to stop the blazes that cloak Southeast Asia in haze every year.

New Zealand will fund a multi-million dollar programme aimed at getting more children in Pacific island countries to play sport.

North Korea yesterday sought to justify its weapons programme as a defence against US nuclear "blackmail" as world

An Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Florida carrying a robot space probe on NASA's first quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life.

Thailand's junta-appointed lawmakers yesterday signed off on a nearly $124 million budget hike for defence spending, while

US President Barack Obama yesterday warned Beijing it could not ignore a tribunal's ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the