Asia & Pacific

The United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back onto its list of state sponsors of terrorism, President Barack Obama said as the U.S. decides how to respond ...

One of the gravediggers at Peshawar's largest graveyard has a rule. He says he never cries when he ...

North Korea on Saturday proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures ...

Raina Thaiday, known as Mersane Warria, was identified as the suspect in the Cairns, Australia, stabbing that left ...

SYDNEY—Eight dead children and a woman suffering from stab wounds were found inside a home in a northern ...

SEOUL, South Korea—Most North Koreans have never seen the Internet. But the country Washington suspects is behind a ...

The events of Monday Dec 15 will never be forgotten. They were chilling, and as many said, brought ...

SYDNEY—The central business district of Sydney was under lock-down Dec 15 after hostages were taken in an inner ...

Japan's ruling coalition won a resounding victory in lower house elections Sunday, firming up Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ...

BANJARNEGARA, Indonesia—Heavy rains in central Indonesia loosened soil and collapsed a hill, setting off a landslide that killed ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is counting on a landslide victory in parliamentary elections Sunday that will likely return ...

Australian officials have released a topographic visualization of what lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, which ...

SYDNEY—It is not unusual for a government to flounder in their first term. But political analysts say the ...

A moderate, 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in waters off Taiwan on Wednesday near Taipei.

The relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan has evolved over two centuries, during which Azerbaijan spent most of the ...

A science writer and author is making claims that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was actually hijacked in March by ...

Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least two people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before ...

Typhoon Hagupit slammed into the central Philippines' east coast late Saturday, knocking out power and toppling trees in ...

Traced to a Cote d'Azur villa by private detectives for the bank he once led, the Kazakh oligarch-turned-dissident ...

Haunted by Typhoon Haiyan's massive devastation last year, more than 600,000 people fled Philippine villages and the military ...

Pakistani soldiers killed a top al-Qaida operative Saturday who was indicted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement ...

A new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test has raised questions about whether missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 downed ...

Japanese officials are using the site of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, damaged during the destructive March ...

MANILA, Philippines—Villagers in the central Philippines fled coastal homes and triggered panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations ...

SYDNEY—Advocates for the paid parental leave (PPL) scheme are questioning Prime Minister Tony Abbott's proposed changes to the ...

The US Air Force has deployed several F-22 Raptor jets from an Alaska air base to Japan to ...

The recent defeat of Taiwan's ruling party in local elections indicates unease about the closeness of the country's ...