BARCELONA: Catalonia plunged into further uncertainty yesterday after separatists won a crucial snap poll called following a failed independence bid…

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Defying President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding, the United Nations approved by a resounding…

MANILA: At least three people were killed and six others were missing after a tropical storm struck the southern Philippines…

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong woman jailed for six years for starving and beating her Indonesian domestic helper was ordered…

MELBOURNE: A man who mowed down 18 pedestrians in Melbourne, half of them foreigners, said he carried out the attack…

SEOUL: Flammable materials on the outside of a South Korean building fuelled a major blaze that killed 29 people, experts…

TOKYO: A Japanese company said Friday it would decommission two ageing nuclear reactors due to difficulty in ensuring safety, as…

SYDNEY: Australia has seized more than Aus$1.0 billion (US$760 million) of methamphetamine in its biggest ever bust of the highly-addictive…