Scientists in Australia discovers what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found

The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country

North Korea rejects South Korean calls for an apology over the sinking of a warship Cheonan which went down five years ago with the loss of 46 lives

At least 36 people are dead and 70 injured after a bus drifted into the opposite lane and hit two buses and a truck in Peru

Yemeni foreign minister calls for Gulf Arab states to intervene to prevent the advance of Shia Houthi rebels into the south of the country

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday to forge tighter economic and defence ties,

Sri Lanka's new president heads to Beijing this week for talks with China's leadership, seeking to smooth ruffled feathers after

ISIS militants returning to the UK could launch a chlorine gas attack on trains, the London Underground or at a football match.

There is nothing to be worried about it. Many things will go on just as usual. But be firm, be calm. We are going to have a multi-racial

About 20 years ago, when I was still of marriageable age, my father Lee Kuan Yew had a serious conversation with me one day. He

The United States and China yesterday led global acclaim for Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean statesman whose shrewd and sometimes

A bronze bust of Russian president Vladimir Putin – in the style of a Roman emperor – will be unveiled next month to honour his

US Senator Ted Cruz opened the first major campaign of the 2016 presidential season yesterday with a kickoff speech courting cultural

Betel nut, used by almost a tenth of the world's population, not only gives people a buzz equivalent to six cups of coffee and is used variously as a symbol of love, marriage and a cure for indigestion and impotence but also leads tens of thousands to an early grave

Ace Bangladesh National Women Football Team forward Sabina Khatun scored 16 goals in a single match in Maldives Women’s Football Fiesta 2015

Four construction workers including a Bangladeshi are killed in a lift crash at a construction site in Putrajaya city of Malaysia.

The autocratic founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew who died Monday never shrinks from expressing his views bluntly and was known as much for his tough talk as a pithy turn of phrase in campaign speeches, press interviews and parliamentary debates

Pakistan has been holding its first Republic Day parade in seven years amid tight security

A new device developed by Polish scientists acts as a robot's central nervous system and provides people with the hardware and software to build almost any type of robot they can think of

King Richard III's remains arrives at Leicester Cathedral for reburial 530 years after his death