CHONGLI: Villages are being razed in northern China. Mountains are being cut to size. And new stadiums, high-speed train lines,…

SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today announced that he will reshuffle the Cabinet after Parliament prorogues, to give the…

BEIJING: China’s propaganda machine kicked into overdrive on Tuesday to defend the Communist Party’s move to lift term limits for…

LONGYEARBYEN: Norway’s ‘doomsday’ seed bank, which seeks to protect the world’s crops from natural disasters, on Monday said it…

SYDNEY: More than 30 people are believed to have died after a powerful earthquake struck Papua New Guinea’s mountainous…

BERLIN: German prosecutors said Monday they were dropping a probe into whether Facebook bosses including Mark Zuckerberg were condoning hate…

ISLAMABAD: Russian-Polish climber Denis Urubko has paused in his attempt to summit K2 alone during winter, a spokesperson said Monday,…

DUBAI: Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor, who died in Dubai at the weekend aged 54, drowned in her hotel bathtub after…