A newly married man and his grandmother are killed in India when a wedding gift they were opening exploded.

Bollywood actress Sridevi, whose acting prowess and beguiling eyes helped her rule Bollywood in 1980s, died of cardiac arrest in Dubai at the age of 54 plunging the Indian cinema industry into mourning.

Regional leaders launched construction work on the Afghan section of an $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will link the energy-rich Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves but has been heavily dependent on gas exports to China after Russia cut back gas imports in the past few years.

US Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un's sister, while in South

Pakistan's Supreme Court orders that ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party he founded, six months after the court removed him as premier.

Eleven Chinese warships sailed into the East Indian Ocean this month, a Chinese news portal said, amid a constitutional crisis in the

Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry is set to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper to mark its 350th anniversary in 2041.

Streets around Lhasa's fire-hit Jokhang temple, one of the most sacred sites for Tibetan Buddhism, were reopened to pilgrims yesterday

Rescuers yesterday discovered nine more bodies beneath the ruins of a Indian hotel, bringing the known death toll from an explosion

Malaysia has apologised after a government ad in Chinese-language newspapers featuring a picture of a barking rooster to mark the

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, transgenders will be part of a team of boy scouts being sent to Saudi Arabia to serve as

A Pakistani court yesterday handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in a case that

Indian investigators have arrested three people who allegedly helped a billionaire jeweller obtain fake documents for overseas loans in

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in yesterday said it was too early to think about a summit with North Korea despite the Olympic-

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday agreed to step up efforts to bring stability to war-

A Japanese scientist says his team has cracked open a method to improve the production of carbon-free energy -- by using proteins taken from egg white.

Pakistan is sending troops to ally Saudi Arabia on a "training and advise mission", the military said, three years after it decided against

China has confirmed the first human case of H7N4 bird flu, prompting Hong Kong to issue a health warning for those travelling to the

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump agreed to keep up pressure on North Korea until Pyongyang

China yesterday expressed anger over a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the remote Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh,