SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday it had successfully carried out its first hydrogen bomb test, marking a major step forward…

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Sunni-ruled but Shiite-majority ally Bahrain followed Riyadh’s suit on Tuesday and cut all air links with Iran…

DUBAI: The escalating standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia may raise instability in the Middle East, but it will probably…

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will introduce a raft of executive actions to try to reduce US gun violence yesterday, bypassing…

RIYADH: Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran erupted into a full-blown diplomatic crisis as Riyadh and its Sunni Arab allies…

BEIJING: Fourteen people were burned to death and 32 injured after a public bus went up in flames in a…

BEIJING: A gargantuan gold-painted statue of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong has been erected in open countryside by a…