Octogenarian reaches summit but 81-year-old Nepalese man is hot on his heels

A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said.

Yuichiro Miura, 80, who has had heart surgery four times is already in the oxygen-deficient 'death zone'

Request is likely to spark anxiety in neighbouring Pakistan

Beijing’s thaw over greenhouse gases seen as major step in battling climate change

Fishermen freed as speculation grows that Beijing may be planning for regime change

China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations troubled by issues from cyber-spying to North Korea.

A British climber who delivered a live video interview from the top of Mount Everest has found himself in trouble with the Nepalese authorities who have branded the broadcast illegal.

Can socks, or rather an absence of them, save Pakistan this hot, blistering summer?

China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies.

Imran Khan has blamed a political rival based in Britain for the murder of a politician from his own party who was shot dead outside her house in Karachi on Saturday night.

A suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing the council chief and at least 13 others, authorities said.

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

US State Department urges Kim Jong-Un's reclusive government to 'exercise restraint'

Hardliners say proposed legislation to outlaw domestic violence is against Islamic principles