Two women pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering the half-brother of North Korea's leader at the start of their trial in Malaysia.

Two suicide bombers attacks a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing a number of civilians and policemen, state television says, citing the interior ministry.

A military transport plane belonging to the Congolese army crashed near Kinshasa on Saturday, killing "several dozen"

The Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied yesterday said it had taken down a portrait of the

Washington has opened channels to North Korea to find out if the regime is ready to talk about giving up its nuclear

Iraq has suspended all international flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil, sending anxious foreigners rushing to the airport, as Baghdad cranked up the pressure on the Kurds over their independence referendum.

North Korea yesterday accused Donald Trump of exploiting Otto Warmbier's death, calling the US president an "old lunatic" for alleging

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament yesterday, effectively kicking off a national election campaign where he faces

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka tops the list of the most stressed cities in Asia whereas Sydney followed by Singapore, Taipei and Osaka are the least stressed cities in Asia, according to the data compiled by the UK-based firm, Zipjet.

A strike that shut down India's picturesque hill station of Darjeeling -- causing violence and disruption to tourism --

A Pakistani court in a high-profile corruption case has indicted the finance minister on graft charges after investigators

Interpol on Wednesday approved the Palestinian Authority's membership bid, a new victory in its drive for

An accountability court in Islamabad indicts Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a corruption reference filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Japan will provide US $4 million as emergency grant aid for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the northern part of Rakhine State of Myanmar.

China has staged military exercises in Djibouti after opening its first overseas military base there last month, official

An Istanbul court on Monday ordered the release of leading Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel in the controversial trial of

India will not deploy troops to Afghanistan as part of a new US strategy for the war-torn country, the Indian defence

Vehicles laden with food, facemasks and bedding have been sent to help more than 75,000 people who have fled a

Indian soldiers killed four militants during a two-day gun battle near the heavily militarised de facto border in Kashmir

Sri Lanka customs arrested an India-bound air passenger attempting with "difficulty" to smuggle nearly one kilogram