Jihadist group demand a US$200 million ransom to be paid within 72 hours but Tokyo vows not to give in

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong employer accused of starving and beating her Indonesian maid treated the woman as an ‘unpaid…

MANILA: Philippine police arrested three people for cracking jokes about a bomb while on their way to attend Pope Francis’s…

KATHMANDU: Fighting broke out in Nepal’s parliament early yesterday, with Maoist lawmakers throwing chairs and injuring four security officers, as…

SYDNEY: Australia yesterday raised the terrorism threat level against the police force to high for the first time, saying there…

TAIPEI: Six young firemen were killed yesterday as they battled a blaze engulfing a bowling alley in northern Taiwan, officials…

BEIJING: The Chinese businessman who bought an unfinished Soviet-era vessel that became his country’s first aircraft carrier was quoted yesterday…

CONAKRY: Children on Monday trickled back to school in Guinea, where the Ebola epidemic broke out in December 2013, as…