Muslim militant group Hizb-e-Islami have claimed responsibility for the early morning attack

Japan’s “shock and awe” tactics to kick-start its sluggish economy paid off today as the world’s third-biggest economy leapt forward in the first three months of the year.

Firefighters attempted to tackle a massive blaze that broke out at a shopping centre in Manila, Philippines today, fearing that it could take days to put out.

Surgery which was donated after viral pictures, but the baby will still require lots of medical care

Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py needed two rounds of flicking to end the impasse

A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, injuring all 21 people on board.

One of the suspects in a brutal gang rape of a student in India is in a criticial condition after being attacked and poisoned in prison, his lawyer says.

Scientists say the current population has just seven per cent of the total DNA that existed within the community during British Raj

Taiwan slammed Manila's apology for the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman as informal and insincere, and said it is recalling its representative and will discourage travel to the Philippines.

One of Japan’s leading politicians has poisoned already toxic relations with China and South Korea by saying that wartime sex slaves were a necessary evil.

Rescue workers at a US-owned mine in eastern Indonesia freed four out of 37 miners who were believed trapped underground when a tunnel collapsed.

Dozens of people are feared to have drowned after several boats carrying Muslim refugees fleeing an approaching cyclone sank in the Bay of Bengal.

Doctors in China have implanted a metal heart into a sheep using state of the art aerospace technology.

Daniel Loeb urges Sony to sell parts of film and music business

Attempt to improve conditions for textile workers frustrated by American retailer