A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency says.

Philippine authorities yesterday warned Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern city to surrender or die, as attack helicopters

The Philippine city of Iligan was overflowing with evacuees and on lockdown yesterday over fears Islamist militants had sneaked out of

Philippine security forces yesterday intensified a bombing campaign on homes and other buildings in a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days, and warned there may be collateral damage.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad was yesterday investigating a suicide bombing near a Jakarta bus station that killed three policemen

Philippine security forces bombed residential areas in a southern city yesterday as they battled Islamist militants who were holding

Rescuers resume the search for seven people missing after a bus plunged into a river in mountainous northern India, killing at least 17 Hindu pilgrims.

Myanmar's army yesterday rejected allegations of human rights abuses during its crackdown on Rohingya Muslim last year, made by

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order that will impose a wide-ranging ban on smoking in public, reinforcing

A new ferry between isolated North Korea and Russia docks for the first time at the Pacific port of Vladivostok, in spite of US calls for countries to curtail relations with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he wanted to behead opponents of his drug war and warned 50,000 people could die

Myanmar's military yesterday sued two local journalists using a controversial censorship law over an article they wrote criticising the top

Adorable panda in Taipei Zoo can't get enough thill bamboo. Taiwan's first native-born panda cub Yuan Zai has been enjoying a new item on its menu.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he was open to exploring the South China Sea's natural resources with rival claimants

A mother dying from a rare disease in Malaysia decides to write her memoirs so that her sons will have something to remember her by.

Social network operator ordered to take down web pages deemed illegal by Thailand government.

A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States says Pyongyang would have dialogue with the US administration if conditions were right, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

World Health Organisation (WHO) appoints Indian movie star Amitabh Bachchan as its goodwill ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region.

An earthquake rocks China's western Xinjiang region, killing eight people and injuring another 11, state media reporsts.