The Indonesian volcano which caused a tsunami that killed more than 400 people last week lost more than two-thirds of its height following the eruption which triggered the killer waves.

Cambodia's strongman leader Hun Sen lashed out at Western governments for pushing "democracy and human rights" on his country in a speech yesterday.

The number of people evacuated after Indonesia's deadly tsunami has nearly doubled to some 40,000 while more than 7,000 were injured in the disaster, officials said yesterday, as they trimmed the official death toll.

Australia's vast continent is sizzling through extreme heatwave conditions this week, with temperatures reaching record highs and emergency services on high alert for bushfires.

The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency's database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said yesterday.

Top Chinese leaders are forced to undergo a self-criticism session, state media said on Thursday, in a further sign of President Xi Jinping's efforts to enforce party loyalty amid signs of internal dissent over his handling of a trade war with the United States.

Top Chinese leaders have been forced to undergo a self-criticism session, state media said yesterday, in a further sign of President Xi Jinping's efforts to enforce party loyalty amid signs of internal dissent over his handling of a trade war with the United States.

Indonesia raises the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest, and orders all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at least 430 people.

The two Koreas yesterday held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for reconnecting and repairing roads and railways across the divided peninsula, with the North calling on the South to push through joint projects despite sanctions on Pyongyang.

At least eight people were killed and 22 injured after a hijacked bus crashed into pedestrians in east China's Fujian province yesterday afternoon, state media reported.

Saudi Arabia’s first robot employee starts work at one of the kingdom’s government entities and has been handed its job ID as well as his required functions, reports Arab News.

Indonesian rescuers uses drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are expected to be uncovered as the search expands.

Indian government has decided to rename three islands in Andaman and Nicobar - Havelock Island to Swaraj Dweep, Neil Island to Shaheed Dweep and Ross Island to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island.

China yesterday accused Britain and the European Union of hypocrisy for expressing concern about China's detention of two Canadian citizens, saying they had double standards for not mentioning a senior Chinese executive arrested in Canada.

Dozens of filled body bags are hauled away from buildings flattened by Indonesia's volcano-triggered tsunami today, as the death toll climbs to 373 and search teams pushes on with the grim hunt for corpses.

A volcano-triggered tsunami leaves at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials says, voicing fears that the toll would rise further.

In a rare emotional address ahead of his abdication next year, Japanese Emperor Akihito said he took "deep comfort" that his long reign had been one of peace as he remembered the "countless lives" lost in World War II.

Twenty-three people died in western Nepal when a bus carrying school students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged

When he spoke to President Donald Trump on the telephone a week ago Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's agenda had

Malaysian business owners and restaurant operators put out an SOS to the Prime Minister to intervene on what they say is a critical shortage of workers.