The 'King of the Blues' guitarist and singer, BB King, has died aged 89, his lawyer says.

Cops find 50 people crammed into a 6-seat van in China. Watch the impossible scene captured on video.

Rival factions of Burundi's army yesterday fought intense battles for control of the capital, a day after a top general launched a coup to

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown with the US Senate over the program, which expires on June 1.

Fourteen people, most of them foreigners, were killed in a Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse that trapped dozens attending a concert and triggered an hours-long standoff with Afghan forces, officials said yesterday.

Jeb Bush was left grasping for a response when a student challenged him during a meeting by declaring: “Your brother created Isis”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ancestral home town at the start of a three-day visit to China yesterday as the two Asian giants work to boost economic ties despite decades of mistrust.

Seventy-two people died when a fire tore through a footwear factory in the Philippine capital, authorities said yesterday, as survivors

Pakistani military officials have reportedly named the spy who, it is claimed, gave away the location of Osama bin Laden to the US.

Japan's cabinet yesterday approved a set of bills bolstering the role and scope of the military, as the pacifist country redefines its position in the increasingly roiled Asia-Pacific region.

The powerful 7.3 magnitude tremor that struck Nepal this week left an already traumatised population gripped by even deeper fear, underlining concerns that the country is ill-prepared to cope with the mental side effects.

Twenty-three people have been killed in two new massacres blamed on Ugandan rebels in the restless east of the Democratic Republic of

Regime air strikes on three adjacent rebel-held villages in northern Syria killed at least 39 civilians, 17 of them children, a monitoring

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed John McCain, a hawkish US senator who has pressed Washington to send lethal

The Israeli ministry of construction issued tenders for the building of 85 new housing units in the Givat Zeev settlement, settlement

President Barack Obama will seek to convince Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia yesterday that the United States is committed to their

The Baltic states will formally ask Nato to deploy several thousand troops as a deterrent, Lithuania said yesterday, amid tensions with Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Out of 13,321 immigrants in 12 detention camps, 1, 466 are from Bangladesh, reports the Star’s Bahasa Malaysia portal MStar.

Italian engineers have built a robotic arm, aimed at improving surgical operations and inspired by the octopus.

Thai police arrest two foreigners in connection to the human smuggling syndicate. The value of assets frozen or seized from those suspected of trafficking Rohingya and other migrants hits Bt204 million so far