Two Japanese restaurants have shot to the top of the La Liste ranking of best places to eat in the world, with a third one getting the

Ardent fans of Aung San Suu Kyi are snapping up spots on $2,000 tours to The Hague, in a display of moral support as Myanmar faces

India will lend Sri Lanka $400 million for infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday after talks with the island

Hong Kong police yesterday ended their two-week siege of a university campus that became a battleground with pro-democracy protesters, as activists vowed to hold fresh rallies and strikes in the coming days.

British police shot a man yesterday after a stabbing in the London Bridge area in the centre of the city.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was best if US President Donald Trump did not get involved in Britain’s upcoming election when he visits London for a Nato summit next week.

The Taliban yesterday said they were ready to restart peace talks with the United States, a day after President Donald Trump visited US troops in Afghanistan and said he believed the radical group would agree to a ceasefire.

Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law on Thursday to dissolve the former ruling party and repealed a public order law used to regulate women’s behaviour under ex-president Omar al-Bashir, the justice minister said.

Iraq’s embattled premier yesterday announced he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country’s top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests.

British police shot a man after a stabbing in the London Bridge area in the centre of the city. A 14-second video clip on Twitter filmed from a high vantage point showed what appeared to be three police officers backing away from a man lying on the pavement.

Hong Kong police ends their blockade of a university campus today after surrounding it for 12 days to try to arrest anti-government protesters holed up inside.

A South Korean court sentences a K-pop musician to six years in prison for raping a woman and distributing a video capturing the act in a case that drew attention to the darker side of the country's lucrative entertainment industry.

Chinese-owned app TikTok admits it briefly removed a viral video that condemned Beijing's crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang and apologised to the US teen who posted the clip.

The Taliban says it was "way too early" to speak of resuming direct talks with Washington, a day after President Donald Trump suggested negotiations to end America's longest war were back on track during a surprise visit to Afghanistan.

The Centre has extended the ban on the Assam-based insurgent outfit ULFA for five years for continuing subversive activities, including

The death toll from the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades rose to 40 yesterday after more bodies were pulled from

Throngs of weeping relatives yesterday buried the first of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last month, in emotional

European Union lawmakers yesterday declared a “climate emergency” in a symbolic vote that heightens pressure for action against global

Disgraced Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering yesterday after a

Iran has arrested eight people it accused of CIA links and sending abroad information on recent urban unrest, days after the United States said it had received thousands of messages on a protest crackdown in the Islamic republic.