Here is a list of the largest earthquakes around the world since the 1900’s according to their intensity on Richter scale and casualties.

Cops yesterday obtains an arrest warrant for man they said is a key financier behind the entire Rohingya trafficking racket in the South.

Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has won approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic.

An overloaded bus swerved off a highway and plunged down a gorge in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, killing 23 people on

Libya has criticised EU proposals to authorise the use of force against people smugglers taking migrants across the Mediterranean to

The Red Cross and a Nepalese telecom firm launched an emergency texting service yesterday to send out real-time updates on aid distribution and weather warnings across the quake-hit Himalayan nation. The free messaging service, set up by the charity and mobile network provider Nepal Telecom, will target users according to their location, offering them potentially "life-saving" information on weather and health hazards in time for the approaching monsoon.

Newly crowned Saudi King Salman has refused an invitation to attend a landmark summit hosted by President Barack Obama, amid

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist has claimed that Barack Obama lied about the killing of Osama bin Laden for his own

Britain's Prince Harry said yesterday he wants to have children and would like a partner to "share the pressure" of royal duties, but is still

The United States acknowledged before the UN yesterday that it has not done enough to uphold civil rights laws, following a string of

The head of India's largest Tamil party was cleared of corruption yesterday, a verdict that sparked wild celebrations by supporters and

A policeman in the Indian capital, Delhi, has been arrested after television channels broadcast images of him attacking a woman with a

Top US diplomat John Kerry headed to Russia yesterday for his first visit in two years to meet President Vladimir Putin, as American ties

Malaysia's embattled prime minister said his party's ruling council gave him its "undivided support" at a meeting yesterday, amid

Sweden's Supreme Court said yesterday it had rejected an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his arrest warrant for

An Al-Jazeera journalist on retrial in Egypt has sued his Qatari employer for $100 million, his lawyers said yesterday, claiming the

An international migration agency says thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand.

The Malaysian home ministry denies claims that the country has trafficking camps of immigrants similar to those in Thailand.

Two Bangladesh nationals die in Najran area, South Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, 650km away from Jeddah and 50km from Yemen border, by mortar shells launched by Houthi rebels of Yemen.

Twenty-six more Rohingya migrants abandoned by their traffickers two weeks ago and left to wander in the jungle are found on Khao Kaew Mountain in Hat Yai district near the Thai-Malaysian border.