ONAGAWA, Japan: Yasuo Takamatsu, 57, grunts with the effort of hoisting a scuba diving tank onto his back, as he…

SHANGHAI: China tested a domestically-produced drone aircraft designed to disperse smog on Saturday, official media reported, in an important step…

SITTWE, Myanmar: In the desolate camps of western Myanmar many homeless Muslims are determined to assert their identity as Rohingya…

SEOUL: North Koreans voted yesterday in a pre-determined election for a rubber-stamp parliament — an exercise that doubles as a…

TOKYO: Tens of thousands of citizens turned out for an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo yesterday, as the nation prepares to…

BENGHAZI, Libya: Libya threatened on Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker at an oil terminal held by militants in…

MADRID: Thousands rallied in Spanish cities on Saturday to mark International Women’s Day with noisy demonstrations for equality at work…

CARACAS: Armed with cooking pots in a potent symbol of Venezuela’s chronic food shortages, several thousand people took to the…