Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its ...

Most stock markets bounced on Monday as the chances of US interest rate cuts following a big miss on US jobs creation offset ...

A Malaysian hotel tycoon who helped bring Formula One to Singapore pleaded guilty Monday to abetting the obstruction of ...

Australian police said Monday they had charged a Chinese national with "reckless foreign interference", accusing the woman of ...

Surrounded by a hubbub of blaring music, restaurant terraces and rumbling suitcase wheels slaloming between overflowing ...

Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing four people and triggering floods ...

The use of pesticides in East Africa, some sold by European firms despite being banned in the EU, is killing off bees in ...

On Ireland's blustery western seaboard researchers are gleefully flying giant kites -- not for fun but in the hope of ...

Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6 ...

South Korea said on Monday it has started removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports into the North, as a new administration in Seoul tries to ease tensions ...

Once a heavily guarded palace, the former official residence of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is being ...

Asian markets flitted between gains and losses Monday as investors continued to digest last week's tariff blitz by Donald ...