Thirteen schoolchildren died in a dormitory fire in central China’s Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.

An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media reported

Fresh ethnic violence has killed five civilians in two districts of the north eastern Indian state of Manipur, senior police officials said.

Pakistan expressed its willingness to work with Iran on “all issues” in a call between their foreign ministers yesterday after both countries exchanged drone and missile strikes on militant bases on each other’s territory.

Nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers crossed the border into India to flee an advance by armed insurgents fighting the country’s junta, an Indian paramilitary officer told AFP yesterday.

North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week’s joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said yesterday.

An anti-polio worker was shot dead in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, police said, accusing Islamist militants who frequently target vaccination teams of being behind the attack.

Japan became yesterday the fifth nation to achieve a “soft landing” on the Moon, but its space agency said that the craft’s solar cells were not generating power.

Fresh ethnic violence has killed five civilians in two districts of the north eastern Indian state of Manipur, senior police officials said

Nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers crossed the border into India to flee an advance by armed insurgents fighting the country's junta, an Indian paramilitary officer told AFP today

A Thai court on Friday ordered the government to come up with an urgent plan to curb air pollution within 90 days, as the kingdom braces for its annual peak of noxious haze

More than 20 Chinese military planes were detected around Taiwan, with 11 crossing a sensitive median line separating the self-ruled island from China, Taipei’s defence ministry said yesterday, the first significant show of force since the weekend’s presidential election.

The Indian Navy said yesterday it had rescued the crew of a US-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi movement as tensions in the region’s sea lanes disrupted global trade.

India and Maldives recently held a core group meeting on January 14 to address the issue of ensuring “continued operation” of Indian aviation platforms providing humanitarian and medical services, India’s ministry of external affairs said yesterday.

Pakistan said it used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran yesterday, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.

A boat ride during picnic turned tragic when at least 16 people, including 14 school children and two teachers, died as the vessel carrying them capsized in a lake in western Indian state of Gujarat's Vadodara district this evening.

Baluchistan is a restive region shared by Iran and Pakistan where security forces on both sides of the border have for years battled militant groups but which now risks being the subject of escalating tensions between the neighbours

The death toll from Pakistan strikes on a border region in Iran's southeast rose to nine, state media reported on Thursday, up from seven earlier

In the backdrop of Iran targeting the “terror bases” in Pakistan, India has said it understands the “actions that countries take in their self-defence” and maintained that it has an “uncompromising” position of “zero tolerance” towards terrorism

Pakistan recalled its ambassador from Iran yesterday and blocked Tehran’s envoy from returning to Islamabad after an Iranian air strike killed two children in the west of the country a day earlier.