An Asian security summit ended in discord yesterday after China denounced US "provocations" in the South China Sea and

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Afghanistan yesterday to inaugurate a $290 million hydroelectric dam

A 96-year-old Japanese man is potty at the prospect of breaking more records after being recognised as the world's

Nepali soldiers have kicked off efforts to partially drain a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, fearing possible

Clashes between Indian police and followers of a revolutionary sect have left at least 24 people dead after an

A young Pakistani woman died yesterday after she was tortured and set alight in the country's conservative northeast

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif underwent open heart surgery in a London hospital yesterday, his second cardiac

A massive fire that erupted at one of India's largest military ammunition depots yesterday killed at least 16 soldiers

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will lead a new effort to bring peace and development to Rakhine State where violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims in recent years has cast a cloud over progress on democratic reforms.

Pakistani media and activists yesterday poured scorn on a suggestion from an Islamic religious body that men should

A black man and a young Chinese woman are flirting, as he leans in for a kiss she thrusts a detergent capsule in his

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his record of reforming India's stuttering economy after two years

China is to send nuclear missile submarines to the Pacific as deterrence amid mounting tensions with the US, a report

Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says.

Hopes faded yesterday for the survival of about 150 people trapped under the mud and rubble of two landslides in

A fifth round of four-nation talks aimed at laying the ground for a negotiated end to the Afghan war began in Pakistan

India yesterday successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range at

South Asian nations will set up a toll-free helpline and online platform to fight human trafficking, one of the region's

The sexual abuse of children by tourists and travellers is a growing scourge around the globe that has largely managed to

The ambitious river inter-linking project is not feasible on a large scale, senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata