SUVA, Fiji: Fiji’s military rulers yesterday set Sept 17 as the date for the South Pacific nation’s first democratic elections…

LOS ANGELES: A US newlywed who pushed her husband off a cliff barely a week after the couple married was…

ARLINGTON, Washington: Washington state officials said the confirmed death toll from a huge mudslide in the US Pacific Northwest was…

BEIJING: The remains of more than 400 Chinese soldiers killed fighting in the Korean War over six decades ago returned…

UNITED NATIONS, United States: The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile tests and agreed to…

MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it planned to defy Chinese warnings and pursue a case in the United Nations challenging…

YANGON: An 11-year-old girl was accidentally killed when Myanmar security forces fired warning shots to disperse mobs targeting international aid…

CHIANG MAI: Chiang Mai, the heart of the Thai North, has once again been blanketed by haze with small dust…