Tokyo, Sep 7: Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as...

Kabul, Sept 4:  The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan's most effective and feared militant groups, has died after a long illness, their allies the Afghan Taliban announced...

New York, Sep 2: Maria Sharapova's love affair with New York nights continued Saturday as the 2006 US Open champion swept past 10th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko and into the fourth round...

Yangon, Aug 29:  Myanmar rejected today the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to a damning report on...

Mount Arafat, Aug 20:  Muslim pilgrims today began ascending Mount Arafat for the climax of the annual Hajj which brings together more than two million people from around the world....

United Nations, Aug 10: The United Nations chief has urged an "independent and prompt" probe into a strike at a market in rebel-held northern Yemen that killed at least 29...

Ghazni (Afghanistan), Aug 10: Taliban militants have launched an attack on an Afghan provincial capital and heavy fighting is under way as security forces try to beat them back, officials...

Washington, Aug 7:  US President Donald Trump today said that sanctions reimposed on Iran were the "most biting ever" as he warned other countries from doing business with Tehran. "The...

Jakarta, Aug 06:  A video of an Indonesian Imam stoically reciting evening prayers in Bali as a deadly earthquake struck neighbouring Lombok has gone viral on social media, with Internet...

Durango: An Aeromexico flight crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames and injuring 97 people, officials said. The Embraer 190 aircraft,...