New Zealand was mourning the loss of the nation's "First Cat" yesterday after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's pet puss Paddles was run

Myanmar says that the UN Security Council's statement on the Rohingya refugee crisis can “seriously harm” its talks with Bangladesh over repatriating more than 600,000 people who have fled there to escape a Myanmar military crackdown.

A public health emergency was declared as choking smog blanketed New Delhi yesterday, with authorities ordering

The time for "strategic patience" with North Korea is over, US President Donald Trump warned yesterday, after

With US President Donald Trump in Japan and soon to arrive here with the North Korean nuclear and missile threat

The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested suspected IS terrorist Abu Zaid from the Mumbai Airport,

Five people have been killed and over 3,000 evacuated after a storm triggered serious flooding yesterday in Malaysia's

At Vietnam's Old Flames market, curious customers peruse love letters and pick through perfumes, candles and

The only certain way to locate and secure all North Korea's nuclear weapons sites would be via a US ground invasion,

An AI character was made an official resident of a busy central Tokyo district yesterday, with the virtual newcomer

China has unveiled a massive ship described as a "magic island maker" that is Asia's largest dredging vessel, state

US President Donald Trump decides at the last minute to extend a marathon trip to Asia, after criticism that he was expected to miss the East Asia Summit, a key meeting between Asean and eight of its partners.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday appeared before an anti-graft court which adjourned till

A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world's

Four Indian police officers were suspended yesterday after it emerged they had refused to help a woman who had

The United Nations called on Australia to stop a "humanitarian emergency" unfolding at a detention centre in Papua New Guinea

Chinese President Xi Jinping replied to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's congratulatory message on China's Communist Party

Iranian environmentalists have mobilised to protect the world's last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of becoming roadkill, a shortage of prey and farmers' dogs.

Three-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ranks 30th on the 2017 Power Women list of Forbes magazine. She was 36th last year and 59th in 2015.

Amid continuing influx of Rohingyas who have been fleeing persecution in Myanmar by security forces, the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, urges her people “not to quarrel”.