SUVA: An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Vanuatu at 9.28 am local time, the US Geological Survey…

JAKARTA: Eleven people were killed and 14 others went missing after a boat sank in waters off Bali island of…

PHILIPPINES: A 13-year-old boy shot himself after shooting his alleged male teenage lover inside a shopping mall in Mexico, Pampanga…

BEIJING: In a step to make the credit card obsolete, Google Inc. has enlisted Visa to push mobile payments with the…

CANBERRA: Australian federal government faces the prospect of only being able to legally process asylum seekers onshore, as the coalition…

Beijing has picked as Hong Kong’s new leader a bureaucrat facing a storm of criticism over heavy-handed security imposed for…

MOUNT TAMBORA, Indonesia: Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living…

GUATEMALA CITY: Four earthquakes struck southern Guatemala on Monday within 2 1/2 hours, shaking buildings in the capital and killing…