Ottawa: Maxime "Mad Max" Bernier, one of the most right-wing figures ever seen in Canadian federal politics, has a score to settle and...
Ottawa: Maxime "Mad Max" Bernier, one of the most right-wing figures ever seen in Canadian federal politics, has a score to settle and...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Nov. 16, the elections office said Wednesday, amid calls for a strong...
NEW DELHI: India banned the sale of electronic cigarettes on Wednesday and warned of an "epidemic" among young people, in the latest and...
Jalalabad, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber has detonated inside a government building in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday, with casualties feared in...
KABUL: Afghanistan's Taliban insurgent group on Wednesday warned teachers, students and other education workers to avoid the upcoming presidential vote or risk dying...
Beijing: A smiling panda and a walking Chinese lantern will be the mascots for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing. The...
Kuala Lumpur: Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires closed thousands of schools across the country and in neighbouring Malaysia Wednesday, while air quality...
Timika, Indonesia: An Indonesian cargo plane with four people on board lost contact with air traffic control on Wednesday, an official said, the...
New Delhi: Irish rockers U2 have announced they are to play their first ever concert in India, wrapping up the band's Joshua Tree...
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia closed more than 1,000 schools nationwide Wednesday and air quality worsened in Singapore days before the city's Formula One race,...
Wellington: Air New Zealand backed down on plans to trademark a logo of the Maori greeting "kia ora" Wednesday after indigenous groups accused...
KABUL: A blast in the centre of Afghanistan's capital Kabul killed at least six people on Tuesday, police officials said. No group immediately...
BANGKOK, Zoo staff in northern Thailand have donned black and white clothing and observed a minute of silence to mourn the sudden death...
Manila, Fifteen people, including children, were killed Tuesday in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in plummeted into a...
New Delhi, A former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, seen as being pro-India, has been formally arrested under a law allowing him to...
Hong Kong, A passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong on Tuesday leaving eight people injured, authorities said. Images...
SEOUL: South Korea is to invest 88 billion won ($74 million) to develop a weapons system by 2023 that can detect and strike...
Honiara: China looks poised to gain an ally in the strategic Pacific region this month as a new Solomon Islands leadership sours on...
