Asia

A defrocked American priest in East Timor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing...

The Taliban will not announce the makeup of its government until the United States completes its troop withdrawal, two sources...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN) has challenged the state governor,...

In appears to be a major policy shift, China has announced that married couples can now have up to three...

The lockdown in some parts of China occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 has officially come to an end...

A couple has named their newborn twins ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’ after giving birth to them under difficult circumstances created by...

A group of Nigerians went on the rampage, damaging vehicles in Pragati Nagar, Nalasopara (E), India on Wednesday after a...

A Nigerian man named Kingsley who has been living illegally in Cambodia for four  years, on Wednesday went to the...

Taiwan’s parliament legalised same-sex marriage on Friday in a landmark first for Asia as the government survived a last-minute attempt...

Ahead of his official coronation on Saturday the King of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, has married his bodyguard and made her...

Police in Indonesia’s Papua province have apologised after interrogators used a snake in an attempt to extract a confession from...

What could be described as the first terror attack in 2019 has been recorded as a car deliberately ploughed into...

A woman in China who was thrown out of the car's window during a high-speed crash, survived miraculously. The woman was sent...

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly raped during surgery for haemorrhoids at one of the country's leading hospitals in Pakistan. The...

A South Korean pastor has been jailed for 15 years for raping eight of his female members. Judge Chung Moon-sung told...