MANILA: Residents of the Philippine capital got the first taste yesterday of a traffic nightmare that will likely worsen and…

SEOUL: A South Korean court yesterday sentenced an opposition legislator to 12 years in prison after a rare treason trial…

BEIJING: The Chinese government’s failure to take emergency steps over the weekend to rein in pollution was ‘indefensible’, state media…

TOKYO: A severe snowstorm sweeping across Japan has killed 19 people and left more than 1,600 injured, media and officials…

KATHMANDU: Nepalese troops yesterday recovered 18 bodies from the snow-blanketed wreckage of a plane that crashed into a hillside, the…

JOHANNESBURG: Eleven men who became trapped in an illegal gold mine in South Africa were rescued on Sunday, but an…

SYDNEY: Thirty-five asylum-seekers broke out of an Australian immigration detention on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and several were injured,…

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: A Tajik prisoner stabbed a prison governor to death with scissors after being ordered to give him a…