SEOUL: Kim Jong-Un was yesterday ‘re-elected’ as North Korea’s leader, state media said, as parliament met in a session closely…

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s tourism board has been forced to remove a YouTube video designed to promote the city-state to the Philippine…

SYDNEY: A young Australian man appeared in a Brisbane court yesterday charged with the rape and murder of 21-year-old French…

MANILA: Single mother Christina Bantasan clutched her baby in the shadows of a sprawling Philippine slum, wishing that a controversial…

WASHINGTON: The daughter of a prominent Uighur academic told US lawmakers Tuesday that his arrest sent a message China will…

TOKYO: A young female scientist accused of fabricating data made a tearful apology live on Japanese television yesterday for ‘mistakes’…

GENEVA: West Africa’s Ebola unprecedented outbreak is among the “most challenging” for health workers since the deadly disease emerged elsewhere…

ROME: Italy has rescued about 4,000 immigrants trying to cross the Mediterranean by boats to reach its shores in the…