A senior Chinese army official was swept away by floodwaters while trying to retrieve chemical-filled barrels from a swollen river in China's Jilin province. His...

The goodwill visit by Myanmar's military ruler Senior General Than Shwe to India was a great milestone for bilateral cooperation and friendship between the two...

Summer vacation for Chinese children is not a time to laze around any more, for many kids, obese and flabby, are now turning up...

China successfully launched a fifth orbiter into space Sunday as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and global positioning network.

At least 13 people were killed and nine injured after a bus fell off a cliff Saturday evening in southwest China's Sichuan province, authorities said.

Over 5,000 of the 7,000 chemical barrels, that were swept into a major river in northeast China's Jilin province, have been recovered by Saturday evening.

A hat-trick of birdies late in the second stretch of the third round saw Anirban Lahiri pull himself to tied fifth with one more round...

A passenger aircraft taxiing at an airport here collided with a stationary plane Saturday.

The increasing demand for shark fins in south Asian countries has led fishermen in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh to hunt for sharks, making them an endangered...

Fans of Spanish giants Real Madrid are divided about the signing of German international Sami Khedira, to judge by an online poll published by sports...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO -- Two Japanese journalists reported missing by their television network were found unresponsive on a mountain Sunday, though...

MANILA - The Philippines on Sunday remembered the late Corazon Aquino, who led the nation in crushing a brutal dictatorship and whose death exactly a...

ISLAMABAD/LONDON, July 31 - Pakistan’s spy chief has cancelled a trip to Britain, a spokesman said on Saturday, but Islamabad played down a row over...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE BOSTICK, Afghanistan (AP) -- Sgt. Thomas Riordan didn't want to return to Afghanistan after home leave. He had just fought through a...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Dozens of land mines have washed up on South Korean shores in recent days, apparently swept from North Korea by...

A video of an activist in restive Papua province being taunted and viciously killed by police bolsters allegations that the military and police there act...

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) has given 30 million euros (about $39 million) in aid to Pakistan so it could help the most...

By HYUNG-JIN KIMASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEOUL, South Korea -- Dozens of land mines have washed up on South Korean shores in recent...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - With roads and bridges washed away, rescuers were Sunday struggling to reach people in northwest Pakistan trapped by the worst floods in...

A group of South Asian students at Simon Fraser University gathered at a park in Surrey on Saturday to raise awareness about cervical cancer. ...

Floods sweeping Asia have killed more than 900 people, officials said Saturday, washing away thousands of homes and destroying infrastructure in some of the worst...

Police in Bangladesh say they have launched a massive hunt for suspected Islamist militants, after a huge arms cache was found in the capital, Dhaka.

British troops targeting a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan have found a cache of bomb-making equipment, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

Violence erupted in the Bangladeshi capital as thousands of garment workers protested over a government-backed wage increase that fell short of demands.

"Since we have these Commonwealth Games coming up, they need to communicate with foreign nationals. If they cannot follow their English, it's going to be...

U.S. troops now account for about two-thirds of the NATO force in Afghanistan, and Americans make up nearly two-thirds of July's Western military fatalities.

A strengthening Lebanese government is helping the militant group Hezbollah bust alleged spy cells, sometimes using tools and tradecraft acquired from Western nations.

Then the lightning bolt hit a support, spraying holes in her tent and injuring two family members, during a severe storm that blew down more...

More women are making their mark in a once male-dominated corporate workplace. Both single and married, Japanese women are earning more, analysts say, and they're...

BLOOMBERG AND AFP , HONG KONGSunday, Aug 01, 2010, Page 10 Asian stocks rose for the fourth consecutive week, their longest...

The global economic crisis, added to missteps by the administration of former president George W. Bush, widened the space between the US and Asia in...

ARROU (France): An 80-year-old Frenchman was recovering in a state of shock in hospital after being freed from a year locked in a...

TOKYO: Twitter's 20 billionth message didn't make much sense, but it spoke volumes about the rapid global growth of the microblogging service. ...

Residents of Peshawar leave their homes with whatever possessions they can carry after the heaviest monsoon rains in the region since 1929. Officials say 800...

Search the news archive for more stories Yet, as the US and its allies step up pressure around Kandahar, Taliban resistance has also...

KABUL : Flash floods in Afghanistan have killed at least 65 people and affected more than 1,000 families, the national disaster authority chief told AFP...

NEW YORK: Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish. That's how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a ...

LONDON: A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated on Saturday after Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha canceled...

BEIJING: The discovery of cancer-causing textile dyes in clothing manufactured by some of the popular Chinese brands has set off alarm bells in...

An influential Jewish organization announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan,...