Cyber criminals hacked the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphoned off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries over the weekend, the bank tells police.

The United States announced Monday it would grant Sri Lanka $39 million to boost maritime security as China develops its strategic hold on the Indian Ocean island.

Two Malaysian women convicted for attempting to have lesbian sex will be fined and caned, a prosecutor says, in a rare case against gay people in the Muslim-majority country.

China condemns measures targeting it in a new US defence act, saying it exaggerated antagonism and that Beijing would take a close look at aspects that beef up the role of a US panel that reviews foreign investment proposals.

Massively stepped-up security in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang has helped prevent "great tragedy", a state-run newspaper said yesterday, in the country's first response to a critical United Nations report on the situation there.

North and South Korea yesterday agreed to hold a summit in the North in September, another step towards boosting cooperation between the old rivals, even as doubts grow over efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons programme.

Authorities in northern China delayed the demolition of a massive mosque on Saturday after thousands of people demonstrated to stop its destruction, local residents said, amid a nationwide government drive to tighten restrictions on religious activities.

Three of India's greatest cricketers Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Navjot Singh Sidhu are finally getting an invite to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief

A United Nations human rights panel says that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy."

A female Chinese banker makes considerable copyright earnings by drawing emoticon in her spare time in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province.

China's top newspaper rebutted growing criticism in government circles that Beijing should have taken a lower profile to head off its trade war with the United States, saying yesterday that, like an elephant, China cannot hide its size and strength.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok jumped to 319 yesterday, as strong aftershocks triggered panic among traumatised survivors waiting for aid in the worst-hit regions.

Hurricane Hector whirled toward Hawaii Tuesday with 130 mph winds, bringing the threat of dangerous sea swells on two islands in the

North Korea yesterday released a South Korean who was arrested after crossing the border last month, Seoul's unification ministry said,

The death toll from a powerful earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok rise to 105 as rescuers clawed through the rubble of homes, schools and mosques for survivors and evacuees faced another night in the open.

Indonesia has returned to Malaysia a luxury yacht linked to the multi-billion dollar 1MDB financial scandal, Prime Minister Mahathir

The biggest ever cyber attack to hit Singapore was carried out by highly sophisticated hackers typically linked to foreign governments, a cabinet minister said yesterday, but did not give names.

On December 26 a massive earthquake measuring 9.1 on the open-ended Richter scale strikes off the coast of Sumatra and triggers a

Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, Hiroyasu Izumi highly appreciates Bangladeshis who show sympathy to the victims of atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong Ho is due to visit Iran on Tuesday, Iranian media reported yesterday.