Avalanches triggered by heavy snow have killed more than 100 people in mountainous areas of northern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as rescuers battled to save dozens more trapped in the snow.

ISIS militants have reportedly ransacked Mosul library, burning over a hundred thousand rare manuscripts and documents spanning centuries of human learning.

New Delhi's new chief minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday announced his government will halve power bills and provide free water to poorer households after his anti-corruption party won a landslide election this month.

A West Bank mosque was set alight in a village near Bethlehem Tuesday with anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew sprayed on a nearby wall, Palestinian witnesses said.

A political crisis in the Maldives will deepen unless parties hold emergency talks following the arrest of ex-president Mohamed Nasheed on terrorism charges, an anti-corruption watchdog said yesterday.

The first train to complete a journey on the world's longest railway line, connecting Spain and China, has returned home.

A court in India's Mumbai city yesterday sentenced gangster Abu Salem, a key associate of crime lord Dawood Ibrahim,

Rajendra Pachauri, who quit this week as head of the UN's climate science panel following sexual harassment claims, is recovering in a New Delhi hospital from a heart problem,

A former model and Miss Turkey could face up to two years for social media posts that prosecutors have deemed to be critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The US has warned its citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan due to a threat posed by foreign and local militants throughout the country.

The American public has grown more supportive of the US fight against the Islamic State group, with 47 percent backing ground troops against the jihadists,

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government announces a reduction in power tariff.

90 people so far has died in a series of avalanches in north Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.

The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks royal pardon over his conviction for sodomy.

US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline

The United States and regional power India have voiced concern after former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was forcibly dragged into court to face terrorism charges and denied legal access and medical treatment.

France's defence minister yesterday held talks with his Indian counterpart in a fresh attempt to seal a troubled deal to sell 126 Rafale fighter jets.

Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France yesterday called for a total ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out the "apocalyptic scenario" of all-out war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Iran was a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his secret services, according to reports Monday citing leaked documents.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said that the prime motive behind Mother Teresa's service to the destitute was converting them to Christianity at a function in a village in Bharatpur, adding that her selfish aim devalued the virtues of a noble cause.