• Five climbers are feared dead after going missing on the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga.    
  • Five climbers who went missing earlier this week on Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal are feared dead, officials say.
  • A noted Hungarian climber near his goal of scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks was missing along with four others.    
  • President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has sought to dispel talk that he will find a way to stay in power beyond the two-term limit imposed by the constitution.    
  • An 8.3-magnitude quake off the Kamchatka Peninsula sent tremors that prompted evacuations as far away as Moscow, but there were no injuries.    
  • British fighter jets were scrambled after the pilot of the Pakistani flight reported the threat. The two men were arrested after the plane landed.    
  • A Chinese farmer who lost his hands in an accident is turning his misfortune into a family business with home-made 'bionic arms' that he now sells to other amputees.
  • A statue of Lord Buddha being cleaned on the eve of the Buddhist festival of Wesak.    
  • Ireland fall one run short of a dramatic win over Pakistan in Dublin.
  • Tensions escalate in northern Sri Lanka as Tamil people try to prevent the Sinhalese-dominated army from taking over their land.
  • The attackers set off a large explosion followed by numerous smaller blasts, sending United Nations and international agency workers into bomb shelters.    
  • There has been a large explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, followed by an apparent attack on a security forces building.
  • The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, made the blunt comments at a meeting with a personal envoy of President Kim Jong-un of North Korea.    
  • BEIJING (Reuters) - A North Korean envoy told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that North Korea is willing to take "positive actions" to safeguard peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, China's state media reported. Ch...
  • BEIJING (Reuters) - A North Korean envoy handed on Friday a letter from North Korea's top leader, Kim Jong-un, to Chinese President Xi Jinping, state media reported. Choe Ryong-hae, a "special envoy" of the North Korean leader, ha...
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's special envoy told a top Chinese defence official Friday that his country wants to solve problems on the Korean peninsula through dialogue, Beijing's state media said.
  • BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes that a visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday. ...
  • BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes that a visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday. ...
  • A North Korean envoy visiting China says Pyongyang is ready to open up "dialogue with all the relevant parties", Chinese state media report.
  • The North Korean envoy, Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, said the North would “accept the proposal” by China, its biggest benefactor which it has strained relations with.    
  • BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Yunshan, the Chinese Communist Party's fifth-ranked leader, told a North Korean envoy on Thursday that China hopes all parties would work toward denuclearisation and called on all sides to restart talks on ...
  • Chinese tourists are replacing South Koreans in a resort which once symbolised the reconciliation of the two Koreas.
  • By Ju-min Park and Ben Blanchard SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials as a "special envoy" from its leader Kim Jong-un to Beijing on Wednesday, accompanied by a high-powered delegation in wh...
  • Kim Jong-un sent a top official to China as ties between the two countries remained strained over Pyongyang’s nuclear program.    
  • North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong-Un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported.
  • Three new schemes were introduced Friday as part of the government’s unique identification program.    
  • Kabul has been hit by a series of explosions as gunmen were reported to have stormed a building in the centre of the city.    
  • RAF Typhoon jets are launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian plane from Pakistan within UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence says.
  • Forget North Korea, weapons of mass destruction, mega-earthquakes and simmering territorial disputes. There is, it seems, a far more fearsome issue facing Japan's prime minister: ghosts.    
  • MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia welcomes North Korea's declaration of readiness to return to talks with world powers, a senior Russian diplomat was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying on Friday. "The fact that Pyongyang has declared its readiness and desire to return to the negotiating table... de...
  • North Korea has offered to return to talks on nuclear disarmament, in a move designed to keep their Chinese allies happy.    
  • By Yoshiyuki Osada OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese war-time military brothels cancelled a meeting on Friday with the mayor of the city of Osaka after he refused to withdraw remarks asserting the brothels were "necessary" at the time. The mayor of Os...
  • The South Korean women were concerned that a politician who made provocative comments defending World War II brothels was seeking to repair his image.    
  • Two South Korean women forced into sexual slavery in WWII cancel a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, citing fears of "political exploitation".
  • The Hiroshima and Nagasaki wartime atomic bombings were "divine punishment" on Japan, a South Korean newspaper has claimed.    
  • By Yoshiyuki Osada OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels abruptly cancelled a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto after he refused to withdraw remarks asse...
  • Pakistani officials welcome Barack Obama's speech rethinking US policy on the use of drones, which have killed hundreds of people in Pakistan.
  • The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their use.
  • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flies to Myanmar Friday bearing almost $1 billion in development aid and a plan for a nationwide electricity grid as Japan tries to grab the box seats in the country's quickening development.
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Burma for economic talks - in the first visit by a Japanese PM since 1977.
  • Ms. Banerjee, who has been projected as the “symbol of honesty” in West Bengal, is fighting hard to restore voters’ confidence.    

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