Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to remain in prison after his request for a royal pardon was turned down

Police have arrested three editors from a Malaysian news portal and charged them with sedition over a news report

Palash, the largest tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, still paces his cage for the hour leading up to dinner and still pounces on his meal when his handlers lift the gate to his feeding room. But lately what the 440-pound feline finds is not his usual 15 pounds of raw beef, fresh from the slaughter.

Myanmar government and 16 ethnic armed groups agree on the draft of a nationwide ceasefire towards ending over 65 years of armed conflict in the country.

The heads of Arab League countries meeting in Egypt have agree to create a joint Arab military force.

The news that Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in gun battles in the mountainous northwestern Khyber region on Saturday, is being denied by a spokesman for the militants.

The calm at the BCCI office was shattered by the constant ringing of the landlines as fans from Pakistan and Bangladesh calls after team India lost in the quarterfinals against Australia, reports Indian Express.

A former Chinese regional police chief has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the country's top prosecution agency said yesterday,

Known as the “Jewel of the Desert,” the bustling city climbed five places to claim bragging rights to the top spot.

Thousands of people in Singapore are queuing to pay tribute to late statesman Lee Kuan Yew as he lies in state in parliament

China yesterday executed three people for a mass stabbing in Kunming that killed 31 people last year, the country's top court said, with

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday to forge tighter economic and defence ties,

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will offer island nations in the Indian Ocean a broad range of military and civilian assistance next week in a bid to wrest back some of the influence China has gained by spending billions of dollars in the region.

Senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said yesterday that he did not believe that the party has lost is transparency.

Turkey will not take part in any military offensive by Iraq to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday.

Thailand's junta chief spoke out yesterday against a proposal from one of his own military-appointed panels that he and other key coup figures should be temporarily banned from politics once civilian rule is returned.

Indonesia yesterday rejected the offer of a prisoner swap proposed by Canberra in an 11th-hour bid to save two Australian drug smugglers facing execution, saying it is determined to put to death those "who have poisoned our nation".

The Iraqi military launched a major campaign to take back a key city from the self-proclaimed Islamic State over the weekend—a move that caught the US “by surprise,” in the words of one American government official.

Pakistan and India held their first high-level talks for nearly a year yesterday, with a senior Indian diplomat hailing the meeting in Islamabad as "positive and constructive".

One of the men convicted of gang raping a woman on a bus in Delhi has blamed his victim for the fatal attack, saying “girls are far more responsible for rape” than men.