US President Donald Trump will pay his first state visit to India on February 24-25, the Indian Prime Minister’s office announce, amidst indications that the two countries are working on sealing a ticklish trade deal.

A suicide attack rocks the Afghan capital Kabul early today killing at least five people, officials says, in what is the first major assault in the city in months.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China passes 1,000 people, health authorities announces.

Grieving relatives of 29 people murdered by a rogue soldier in Thailand held tearful Buddhist prayer ceremonies yesterday, as fresh details emerged of shoppers cowering in terror while the gunman stalked the mall.

US President Donald Trump was yesterday set to propose a 21% cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safety-net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials.

Australian authorities issued evacuation orders as heavy rain lashed Sydney and the east coast of the state of New South Wales (NSW) yesterday, bringing chaos to the country’s largest city while dousing bushfires that have raged since November.

Philippine government lawyers yesterday moved to strip the nation’s biggest media group of its operating franchise in what campaigners branded a fresh attack on press freedom under President Rodrigo Duterte.

Tensions flared in Syria yesterday after five Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian regime artillery fire in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel bastion.

Chinese President Xi Jinping donned a face mask and had his temperature checked yesterday while visiting medical workers and patients affected by the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 900 people.

At least 10 people in India were killed when their bus made contact with a roadside power line and caught fire, officials said late Sunday.

Militants killed and wounded seven Egyptian soldiers in restive North Sinai on Sunday, Egypt’s military said. The army said it “foiled” an

Hundreds of flights and train services were cancelled across northwest Europe yesterday as Storm Ciara swept in packing powerful winds

Iran said it “successfully” launched a satellite but failed to put it into orbit, in a blow to its space programme that the US alleges is a cove

Police arrested a Brandon, Florida, man outside the White House on Saturday after he threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Moscovites are mystified by a flood of bomb hoaxes forcing the evacuation of courts, schools and malls while authorities appear unable

Jihadists killed at least 30 people and abducted women and children in a raid in northeast Nigeria’s restive Borno state, a regional government spokesman said yesterday.

Wall Street is set to open largely unchanged after strong gains in the previous week as investors keep an eye on the economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak and company updates, with people starting to return to work in China.

Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) got approval to resume production at a key China plant after being forced to shut it following a coronavirus outbreak, but only 10% of the factory’s workforce has managed to return so far, a source tells Reuters.

Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan reveals 60 more confirmed cases of coronavirus as quarantined passengers take to social media to warn of depression setting in over their confinement.

Joaquin Phoenix won his first Oscar on Sunday for his terrifying performance as an isolated loner who becomes one of the world's best known comic book villains in "Joker," and invoked his late brother River Phoenix in one of the most emotional acceptance speeches of the night.