Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water on Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia's largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon.
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has reportedly been given refuge in the US embassy in Beijing following his dramatic escape from his heavily guarded home in east China, reports and rights group said on Saturday.
New satellite images show more work under way at North Korea's nuclear test site but give no indication of when a test may occur, a US-based specialist website reported today.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is now under US protection in Beijing after fleeing from house arrest, a US-based rights group said today, threatening to open up a new front of tensions between the two governments.
A victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy has asked India to boycott the London Olympics to protest against Dow Chemicals sponsoring the sports event.
A Malaysian court has ordered a senior ethnic Indian journalist to pay about
Rs. 86 lakh in damages to a businessman for defaming him on Twitter.
As many as 129 kindergarten students in China's Yunnan province fell ill after having breakfast at school, officials said.
A thunderstorm in China's Guangdong province grounded over 100 flights at an airport Friday night, said authorities.
Libya's interim ruling council has fired the nation's Cabinet just five months after it took office, citing incompetence, two senior officials have said, just two months before the country's first national election.
Mao Zedong is revered in China but sacked leader Bo Xilai's style of running the southwestern city of Chongqing in tune with some of Mao's populist and campaign-style policies had left many in the Communist leadership uneasy, contributing to his ouster.
A relative of Osama bin Laden's Yemeni widow says Saudi Arabia has offered to let her live in the kingdom with her five children after being deported from Pakistan along with other members of the late al Qaeda leader's family.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has been under heavy sanctions for years but there is little sign of any effect on the elite in Pyongyang, who enjoy unfettered access to upmarket cars and consumer goods.
Seven people died in a car bomb attack in eastern Iraq today, police said.
The Panchen Lama chosen by China but disputed by Tibetan Buddhists discussed religious philosophy Thursday during his first appearance outside the mainland marking greater efforts by Beijing to win acceptance of its rule over Tibet.
Israel's military chief said in an interview published Wednesday that he believes Iran will choose not to build a nuclear bomb, an assessment that contrasted with the gloomier statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pointed to differences over the Iran issue at the top levels of Israeli leadership.