Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “unconditionally” in a bid to restore diplomatic ties

South Sudan’s rival parties began two days of talks in Addis Ababa yesterday in a bid to salvage a peace deal, with just days left before a unity government is meant to be formed.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launches the Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and Pacific region.

India mounted its biggest-ever evacuation effort of pulling back an estimated 8,00,000 people from low-lying areas along the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha as the severe cyclonic storm Fani is set to hit the eastern state tomorrow afternoon.

Just days before his official coronation, Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn marries the deputy head of his personal guard force and gave her the title Queen Suthida.

At least 15 security personnel and a driver are reportedly killed in a blast of an improvised explosive device (IED) by suspected Maoist rebels on police vehicles in Maharashtra of India today.

Japan's Emperor Akihito prepares to become the country's first monarch to abdicate in more than 200 years, handing the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son and ushering in a new imperial era.

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings are killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers tell Reuters.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's total assets grew 52 per cent since 2014. He declared total assets of Rs 2.51 crore in his affidavit with the Election Commission when he filed his nomination from Varanasi constituency for the Lok Sabha election.

Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic has condemned the Easter attacks as "an insult to humanity" as the tense and grief-stricken country marks a week since suicide bombers hit three churches and three luxury hotels.

President Xi Jinping yesterday hailed deals worth more than $64 billion signed during China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) this week as he sought to reassure sceptics the project will deliver sustainable growth for all involved.

Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no claim to scholarship other than ambition.

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, are discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday sought to bat away concerns about his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, saying his global infrastructure project will have “zero tolerance” for corruption while vowing to prevent debt risks.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena says police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels that killed at least 253 people.

An extremist leader considered a central figure in Sri Lanka's Easter suicide bombings died in the attacks, the president says as the police chief became the latest figure to quit over the failure to prevent the massacre.

Sri Lankan officials revise the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes for the earlier inaccurate number.

As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed by the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negombo on the country's west coast where communal tensions have flared in recent days.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the police chief and defence secretary to quit following the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 359 people, two sources close to the president have said.

Chilling CCTV footage has emerged showing a suicide bomber calmly patting a child on the head and shoulder moments before he walked into a packed Sri Lankan church, unleashing carnage.