The worst floods to hit parts of Thailand in decades have left at least 94 people dead, officials said today.
A security guard was injured when unidentified attackers opened fire at a vehicle belonging to the Japanese consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi when it was returning from a bank, police said.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said today that Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court would decide whether to pursue more Khmer Rouge cadres, after Prime Minister Hun Sen ruled out a third trial of former regime members.
Rescue workers are scrambling to find up to 500 of people believed to be missing after Indonesia was hit by a volcanic eruption and a tsunami which killed more than 300 people.
Pakistan will take every possible step to maintain a minimum credible nuclear deterrence despite economic constraints being faced by the country, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said today.
Indonesia raised its alert for Mount Merapi to its highest level today and ordered people living near the rumbling volcano to move immediately to safer ground.
Delegates from more than 190 nations on Monday kicked off a UN conference aimed at ensuring the survival of diverse species and ecosystems threatened by pollution, exploitation and habitat encroachment.
Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wants to get a Twitter account once she is released from house arrest so she can get in touch with the younger generation after years of isolation, her lawyer said on Monday.
A closed-door conclave of the Communist Party of China has paved the way for the man most likely to be President after Hu Jintao in 2012-13.
Four Cambodians including a four-year-old boy have been swept to their deaths in flash flooding in recent days as heavy rains battered the country, officials said on Saturday.
England batting coach Dene Hills will return home to join the Australian coaching group as an analyst during the Ashes in a coup for the hosts.
At least 17 people were killed and 23 injured when a bus carrying 53 people collided with a truck in east China's Jiangsu province, authorities said on Sunday.
Stunned by Pervez Musharraf's admission that Pakistan had trained militant groups to fight in Kashmir, Islamabad today rubbished the former military ruler's statement as "baseless".
Aware of the need to work together, India has committed to help its smaller neighbours cope with effects of climate change.
The Obama administration depends on Islamabad in its war against terrorism and the Pakistani spy agency ISI is one of its “closest collaborators,” despite it being “maligned a lot in the media,” Pakistan’s ambassador here has said.