At least 146 people were killed in a stampede when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said.

Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae pounded the Philippines on Saturday after unleashing flash floods and landslides that officials said left at least 45 people dead.

Remembering names at a party is never easy, except at a gathering in Tokyo on Saturday where all 178 guests were called Hirokazu Tanaka -- breaking a record previously held by 164 Martha Stewarts.

Fire was reported from an engine of a plane of India’s budget airline IndiGo, carrying 184 passengers from Delhi to Bengaluru when the aircraft was taxiing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in India’s national capital.

Chinese veterinary experts have been invited to Taiwan, zoo officials said yesterday, for a rare visit between the two sides after a male panda that symbolised an era of warmer ties was moved into end of life care.

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) off its east coast yesterday, South Korea’s military said, while South Korean forces were wrapping up nearly two weeks of exercises aimed at deterring their northern neighbour.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom’s foreign minister said. Prince Faisal bin Farhan hailed the “historical and solid relationship” between the major oil exporter and Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan yesterday launched a so-called “long march” on the capital Islamabad to demand early elections, piling pressure on a government already in crisis.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan launched a so-called "long march" Friday on the capital Islamabad to demand early elections, piling pressure on a government already in crisis.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter will not change India's expectation that it will comply with the country's rules for such companies, a government minister told Reuters on Friday, adding that India's new IT rules would be out in days.

Flooding and multiple landslides in a southern Philippines province killed at least 31 people, a senior government official said on Friday, as rescuers searched for missing residents.

In a momen-tous move to kindle gender parity, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today announced equal match fees for its centrally-contracted male and female players.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers said they were “even more determined” to solve the political crisis in Myanmar during talks in Indonesia yesterday ahead of the Asean leaders’ summit in November.

Pakistan’s intelligence chief accused former Prime Minister Imran Khan of asking the country’s powerful military for “illegal and unconstitutional” support for his

President Xi Jinping said China and the United States must “find ways to get along” to safeguard world peace and development, state media reported yesterday, as he embarks on his precedent-breaking third term in power.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is gravely concerned about escalating violence in Myanmar, the bloc’s chair Cambodia said, in remarks

Senior leader M Mallikarjun Kharge today (October 26, 2022) took over as the president of India’s main opposition Congress.

India’s antitrust watchdog yesterday fined Google $113 million for “unfair” payment policies, a week after hitting the tech behemoth with an even bigger financial penalty for abusing its market dominance.

Tightening markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide and major oil producers cutting supply have put the world in the middle of “the first truly global energy crisis”, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI), India’s fair trade regulator, today announced that it is imposing yet another penalty of Rs 936.44 crore on Google, the second time in a week, for allegedly misusing its dominant position about Play Store policy and ordered the tech giant to stop engaging in unfair commercial practices.