A jihadist group in Libya on Monday released a video showing a kidnapped Tunisian embassy staffer pleading with authorities in…

JINDO, South Korea: The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized last week with hundreds of children…

YANGON: Win Tin, one of the founders of Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition and the nation’s longest-serving political prisoner, died yesterday at…

MOSCOW: Police were in talks with a man armed with a hunting rifle who took three people hostage in a…

TOKYO: A Japanese woman who allegedly battered her mother to death with a kettle was being quizzed by police yesterday.…

TOKYO: Japan’s Shinzo Abe offered a gift to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine yesterday, but reportedly plans to stay away…

TOKYO: Tokyo warned yesterday that the seizure of a Japanese ship in Shanghai over pre-war debts threatened ties with China…

JINDO , South Korea: Anger flared in South Korea yesterday over fresh indications that the evacuation of a capsized ferry…