NEW DELHI: Three-time Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has died, current leader Narendra Modi said Thursday of the ailing…

DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they have arrested nearly 100 people as they step up a crackdown after student protests…

BAMAKO: Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected for a five-year term after winning 67.17 per cent of the…

KABUL: Gunmen attacked an intelligence training centre in Kabul yesterday, officials said, as families buried loved ones killed by a…

SYDNEY: The drought sweeping through large tracts of Australia is set to intensify over the next three months and is…

HANOI: An outspoken activist in Vietnam was jailed for 20 years yesterday for allegedly calling for an election boycott and inciting…

KOCHI, India: The death toll from floods in India’s tourist hotspot of Kerala increased to 77 yesterday, as torrential rainfall…

BANGKOK: A three-year-old kindergartener died after she was left behind in a hot school van in Thailand, police said yesterday after…