NEW DELHI: India’s triumphant Hindu nationalists declared “the start of a new era” in the world’s biggest democracy yesterday after…

GAJARIA, Bangladesh: Divers battled yesterday to recover bodies trapped in the wreckage of a Bangladesh ferry that was sunk by…

SYDNEY: Residents of northeastern Australia have reported seeing a flaming object plummeting to Earth, police said yesterday, adding that the…

BANGKOK: Members of Thailand’s Senate trying to devise a “road map” out of a long political crisis are expected yesterday…

SOMA, Turkey: The operator of a Turkish mine where an explosion has claimed more than 280 lives said on Friday…

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s health minister has proposed the introduction of chemical castration to punish paedophiles following a string of headline-grabbing child…

BEIJING: An unrepentant China yesterday defended its actions in disputed Asian waters amid warnings of war with Vietnam, as Washington…

MANILA: Several hundred Filipino and Vietnamese protesters united in a march in the Philippine capital on Friday, demanding that China…