Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial lasted five weeks; Andrew Johnson's went on for three months in 1868.

The 10th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa assumed office today.

Democratic US lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump say the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country’s system of government.

At least 11 people -- eight foreign tourists and three Nepali high altitude workers -- have gone out of contact in the Annapurna Base Camp and Manang area since Friday. The areas have been witnessing heavy snowfall for the past few days.

There is no way an Indian state can refuse to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) when it has already been passed by the parliament and doing so would be “unconstitutional,” Kapil Sibal, a former law minister of India, says.

Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a military training camp in the Yemeni city of Marib killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens others, Saudi state television says.

Computer viruses caused estimated losses of US$902 million to Vietnamese users last year, much higher than in 2018, reports Bkav Technology Group.

Facebook Inc blames a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will give up their royal titles and public funding as part of a settlement with the Queen to start a new life away from the British monarchy.

China reports 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China's Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of people move around the country.

A highly contagious bird flu has been confirmed at a Czech farm, officials said yesterday after a French farm union warned of the risk of a new outbreak in Europe.

The world’s shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records, died Friday at a hospital in Nepal, his family said.

Four people were killed in a car bombing in Somalia yesterday that apparently targeted Turkish engineers working on a road near the

Four people were killed and another wounded in a shooting at a home in Utah on Friday night, with the suspect taken into custody, police

Ken Starr, who was at the centre of Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the 1990s, and America’s biggest celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz were

Seven trekkers, including four South Koreans, went missing in Nepal’s northwest Himalayan region after an avalanche hit their trail, local

Brazil’s culture secretary Roberto Alvim resigned on Friday over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler’s propaganda

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has stressed on Islamabad’s commitment towards “security and stability” in South Asia as he met US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and held wide-ranging talks on bilateral issues, the situation in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Prepaid mobile connections were restored in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday and 2G services resumed in two districts of the valley after being disconnected in August last year, official said.

President Donald Trump on Friday warned Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be “very careful with his words.”