Asia

Kundunz: Gunmen in Afghanistan killed nine bus passengers and kidnapped 170 on Tuesday outside the northern city of Kunduz in an attack blamed on Taliban...

Tokyo/Seoul: Japan put its military on alert on Monday for a possible North Korean ballistic missile firing, while South Korea also said it had detected...

Manila: Philippine security forces killed 54 militants linked to the Jemaah Islamiah group in a week-long air and ground offensive in the country's...

Sydney: A crocodile in Australia snatched a woman taking a late-night swim in a national park and is believed to have killed her, media reported on...

Bangkok: Thailand will lift a ban this week on overseas travel by some politicians, the defence minister said on Monday, more than two years after the...

Sydney: Mass coral bleaching has destroyed at least 35 per cent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists said on Monday, a...

Jabal Saraj( Afghanistan): After a break of 20 years, Afghanistan's first cement factory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as...

Manila: Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th president of the Philippines on Monday when a joint session of Congress declared him winner of a May 9 election,...

Ankara: Russia and Turkey do not have insurmountable problems, Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday, adding he thinks ties with Russia will be...

Beijing: Grappling with the world's biggest senior citizen population, China's President Xi Jinping held a high-level meeting with officials after...