Three people are killed in a shooting outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma, including the assailant, police said -- the latest in a string of deadly gun attacks at the popular supermarket chain.

A coal mine explosion killed 15 people in north China's Shanxi province, state media reports.

Another summit between North Korea and the US would be “useless” unless Washington offers new concessions in their nuclear negotiations, Pyongyang said yesterday, hours after Donald Trump hinted at the prospect.

Iran has slammed a US show of support for “rioters,” after violent protests sparked by a decision to impose petrol price hikes and rationing in the sanctions-hit country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he was putting on hold further cuts in corporation tax and told voters he would pump the money into services such as health instead, addressing a central issue in the December 12 election.

Pakistan yesterday conducted a successful test launch of a surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of delivering all types of warheads up to 650 kilometres, the military announced.

Indian police yesterday fought street battles in New Delhi with thousands of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students who stepped up protests over fee increases at one of the country’s top universities.

Featuring bumbling generals, assassination plots, and homosexual romance, Pakistani military satire “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” by Mohammed Hanif has finally been released in the country’s official language Urdu

Four people were shot dead and six others wounded while watching a football game in the backyard of a central California home on Sunday, police said.

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, who has decided several key cases and was part of the recent historic Ayodhya verdict, was yesterday administered oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind.

After weeks of talks over a new Israeli government have gone around in circles, Benjamin Netanyahu’s rival Benny Gantz had just two days left yesterday to form a coalition and become prime minister.

The president of Catalonia’s regional government yesterday went on trial in Barcelona for “disobedience” after refusing to remove separatist symbols from public buildings, amid heightened tensions in the Spanish region.

Street protests broke out across north eastern states of India yesterday against the government’s proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to give citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

President Donald Trump yesterday said he is “strongly” considering answering a challenge from opposition Democrats to testify in his own impeachment investigation.

Five people including a Bangladeshi national are killed in an airstrike at a biscuit factory in Libya’s capital Tripoli.

Four people were shot dead and six others wounded while watching a football game in the backyard of a central California home on Sunday, police said.

Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in, after officers warned they may use live rounds if confronted by deadly weapons.

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in writes about Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Korea following a three-day long “2019 ASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit” which will be held in Busan of Korea next week.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) yesterday decided that it would file a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Ayodhya case and said it was against accepting the alternative five-acre plot given for a mosque.

A US businesswoman at the centre of controversy over whether Boris Johnson showed her inappropriate favouritism amid an alleged affair yesterday said she had been left “heartbroken” and “humiliated” by the British prime minister.