DUBAI: Direct talks in Washington between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are beginning to polarise West Asia, with Egypt on Friday declaring that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki,...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama's summit with Southeast Asian leaders has been scheduled for September 24 in New York, a senior US official told AFP on Friday. The summit, which had been...

Dan Marelli, of Tallahassee, Fla., a biologist and scuba diver specializing in mollusks, holds Asian clams found in Lake George, in Bolton Landing, N.Y. Aug. 30 (AP Photo/Mary...

TOKYO — Four-time Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima has been named in Japan’s team for the Asian Games. Kitajima, who won the men’s 100- and 200-meter breaststroke...

Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate change is beginning to open up at last as polar ice recedes. On Saturday the first non-Russian vessel to make...

United Arab Emirates WAM news agency said it was not known whether there were any casualties, but the satellite television channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera reported that members of the crew were...

MADRID (AFP) – World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said Friday. ...

With a clatter of helicopter blades and a cloud of dust, the man overseeing the US war in Afghanistan came to the new front line on Friday.Robert Gates, US defence secretary, travelled to Kandahar...

Oil prices fell below US$75 in Asian trade as investors took profit from gains made the previous day and braced for an expected weak set U.S. employment numbers, analysts said.New York's main...

Asian stocks mostly edged higher yesterday as dealers followed a third straight rise on Wall Street, but gains were limited by unease ahead of much-anticipated U.S. jobs data.Optimism over the U.S....

WELLINGTON: A strong 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's second largest city on Saturday morning, causing a series of aftershocks and power outages in the city. The quake struck at a...

MANILA: The Philippine authorities on Friday admitted missing numerous chances to shoot a sacked policeman who hijacked a busload of Hong Kong tourists in a standoff that ended with eight hostages...

Hungry Ghost festivities give way to redevelopment project in HK By Channel NewsAsia's Hong Kong Correspondent Leslie Tang | Posted: 04 September 2010 0002...

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck off New Zealand's South Island, the US Geological Survey has said. The epicentre was 30km (20 miles) north-west of Christchurch, at a depth of 16.1 km (10...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The State Department of Natural Resources is taking some new steps to keep the "flying fish" known as Asian Carp out of Indiana rivers, lakes, and streams. Expect to see signs...

BEIJING - When Scarlett Johansson strode across the screen in "Iron Man 2," she was wearing a form-fitting outfit made by Semir, a Chinese brand and an official sponsor of the blockbuster...

Vancouver Sun daily. Gill, who has no criminal record, is now facing multiple charges from the shooting, which is alleged to have occurred after an argument with Atwal. The two men and others had...

Quetta's police control room said over telephone. The blast occurred around 3 pm when an estimated 2000 people gathered in Quetta's Meezan Chowk to mark solidarity with the Palestinian people on...

England , causing fire inside the complex and trapping several worshippers. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but the firefighters say one-third of the terraced property on Thoresby...

A cargo plane crashed on a busy highway in Dubai on Friday, setting some cars on fire, Al Arabiya television reported. Ambulances were rushing to the area, located near a residential district, the...

Iran on Friday, banning new investment in energy development, restricting financial dealings and freezing the assets of people and institutions linked to Tehran’s “nuclear activities”.The...

BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. - A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its clear, spring-fed...

An Australian head teacher is under fire after removing the word gay from the famous song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree. Garry Martin told pupils at Melbourne's Lepage Primary to...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — A suicide bomb blast targeting a Shiite procession in the southern city of Quetta on Friday killed at least 42 people and injured more than 80 others,...

ISLAMABAD: In yet another sectarian assault, a suicide bomber targeted a rally of Shia Muslim minority in Pakistan's volatile south-western city of Quetta, killing 49 people and injured dozens of...

Dalvinder Bains , 30, in 2007 but soon afterwards began complaining of domestic abuse. After months of alleged abuse, the woman doused her body in petrol and set herself alight in the couple's...

A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 43 people, the second major attack this week, piling pressure on the civilian government already struggling...

Fears are mounting that Pakistan’s flood crisis – so far confined largely to rural areas – will begin to take its toll on the country’s formal economy, undermining the country’s previously...

China and the US have been staging near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival...

A day dedicated to martyrdom and persecution of the Churches of Asia in present times. The vitality of the community is precisely a result of this testimony to the spilling of blood. Violations of...

Asia is teeming with groups and movements for the evangelization of the blind, AIDS patients, etc. .. All helping to discover Christ, without inhibitions, and passionate about the mission ad gentes....

THATTA, Pakistan : Angry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, the Red Cross said, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst-ever natural...

KUALA LUMPUR : In Malaysia, a controversial rapper has landed himself in hot soup, after a provocative video clip of his using obscene language was posted on YouTube. Wee Meng Chee, a Malaysian...

Japanese prosecutors have charged an alleged member of the Pink Panther gang of international thieves over a robbery in Tokyo in 2007. Rifat Hadziahmetovic, 42, from Montenegro, is accused of...

More than 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a 120km (75-mile) traffic jam on China's Beijing to Tibet motorway. The majority of the vehicles stuck in the jam, which began on Tuesday, are coal trucks...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal - who smoked up to two packs a day - puffing away circulated the Internet in May and...

Quetta, Pakistan At least 22 people were killed Friday in a suicide attack targeting a Shiite Muslim rally in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks. ...

ET Now catches up with Manu Bhaskaran, Director & CEO, Centennial Asia Advisors, Singapore as he analyses Asian economies & asset markets vis-a-vis global markets. ...

Quetta on Friday, police said. More than 40 people were reported to have been injured in the blast. "At least 22 dead bodies have been moved to different hospitals. More than 40 people have been...

India and made the "nation walk with heads held high", boasts notorious Pakistani scientist AQ Khan, considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear weapons programme. "Our nuclear programme...

Cambridge University for over two centuries. He has enrolled for a course that is considered one of the toughest in the world and former scholars include Isaac...

Benigno Aquino took responsibility on Friday for last week's botched bus hijack rescue attempt, in a bid to deflect demands for the resignation of the interior minister. Eight tourists...

Ramadan fast, an Uzbek cleric said Friday, after local Islamic religious authorities condemned "lavish" celebrations by rich believers. A spokesman for...

Article Reprints Aon Benfield's latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August, reports the month was "dominated by historic floods in...

QUETTA, Pakistan : At least 22 people have been killed in a suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim rally in the southwest Pakistan city of Quetta, police said on Friday. "At least 22 dead bodies...

BANGKOK : Thailand has put over 460 locations across Bangkok on high alert on Friday in response to a series of grenade attacks that have rattled nerves in a city still under emergency rule after...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new...