Asia

Sydney: Australian authorities searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet said on Monday they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used...

Dhaka: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was ordered on Monday to appear in court to...

Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban demanded the release of political prisoners as one of the conditions that they said on Sunday would need to be met before...

Bangkok: A piece of suspected plane wreckage found off the east coast of southern Thailand on Saturday was unlikely to belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight...

Davos: Confident of pushing GDP growth higher and continuing the reforms agenda, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said one main reform which is...

Doha: Afghanistan's Taliban want to be removed from a UN blacklist before considering rejoining peace talks aimed at ending a 15-year civil war, a...

YANGON: Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 prisoners on Friday, many of them political detainees, days before a parliament dominated by...

Geneva: The world must back a criminal prosecution of North Korea's leaders as there has been no improvement in human rights there in the two years...

Bangkok: A draft constitution for army-run Thailand to be unveiled this month will be "strong medicine", the constitution panel head said on...

Sydney: Conservationists in Australia's oldest Antarctic outpost have scraped away a hundred years of snow and ice to unearth items, from bullets to a...