UNITED NATIONS, United States: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a longtime hardliner on North Korea, said Tuesday he was willing…

HANOI: Hundreds of black-clad mourners, weeping or lighting incense and laying wreaths, gathered early yesterday for a somber final tribute…

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam: In a village in Vietnam’s ‘elephant kingdom’, a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted…

PHNOM PENH: As aid workers rushed to vaccinate Rohingya refugees against measles earlier this year, rumours swirled through the overcrowded…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis called yesterday for all Chinese Catholics to reconcile, while admitting that a historic deal with Beijing…

WASHINGTON: A woman who has accused President Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault will present…

NEW DELHI: Five people were killed yesterday when an apartment block collapsed in New Delhi, crushing residents beneath mountains of…

SYDNEY: A surging tax-take has blessed Australia’s centre-right government with the smallest budget deficit in a decade and the means…