JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has picked the army chief of staff to lead the military, a presidential palace spokesman…

DENPASAR, Indonesia: An Indonesian woman who ordered the contract killing of her British husband was sentenced yesterday to 12 years…

TOKYO: A radical environmental group has agreed to pay US$2.55 million to Japanese whalers for breaching a US court injunction…

TOKYO: Japanese search teams returned to the peak of a volcano yesterday for the first time in eight months to…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday hanged a man allegedly tortured into confessing to murder as a minor and rejected an appeal from…

SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday reported two more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), bringing to nine the total…

CHICAGO: The police officer who pulled out a gun at a Texas pool party of unarmed black teenagers has resigned…

PARIS: A single vaccine shot, rather than the recommended triple dose, may be enough to protect women against cervical cancer,…