YANGON: A pre-dawn blast at a warehouse in Myanmar’s biggest city killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more…

SEOUL: Tens of thousands of weeping North Koreans bade farewell yesterday to longtime leader Kim Jong-Il as his young son…

BAKU: The president of Azerbaijan has pardoned a young opposition activist who was jailed on drugs charges after using Facebook…

SYDNEY: Heavy flooding following a tropical cyclone in northern Australia swept a 20-carriage freight train off a bridge yesterday, injuring…

JAKARTA: Several Indonesian provinces were flooded due to heavy rains over Christmas on Monday, causing evacuations and major roads to…

MANILA: The death toll in the Philippines from one of the country’s worst natural disaster in two decades has risen…

JAKARTA: One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes erupted yesterday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has…

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered provincial governors to take care of people affected by ‘big waves’ hitting…