NEW DELHI - A newly married woman was hacked to death with an axe by her father in a suspected honour killing after she eloped with a man from another caste in western India, police said on Thursday (April...
Dry weather may be on the cards later this year, but an Indonesian official has promised there will be no haze being blown in from South Sumatra. Governor Alex Noerdin said yesterday that the province - responsible for most of...
BANGKOK - Thailand will hold an election within the 19-month timeframe prescribed in the country's new constitution, now signed into law by the king, but an exact date has yet to be set, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on...
BANGKOK - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new constitution at a glittering palace ceremony on Thursday, an essential step toward holding an election that the military government has promised to restore democracy after a 2014 coup. The constitution is...
Talk about tackling an issue, head-on. Insurer AIG's latest advertisement starring the New Zealand national rugby union team, popularly known as the All Blacks, has drawn both cheers and frowns from across the world for what critics call a promotion...
KUALA LUMPUR: The murder of North Korean Kim Jong-nam could be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said its president Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi. However, there are limitations to this as Malaysia is not currently a member of the...
BANGKOK - A group of young transgender Thais sits together in women's clothes behind rows of men, waiting for military officers to call their names and decide whether they must be drafted as soldiers. "I was born male, so I...
Two persons died and five others were injured on Tuesday when a wild elephant wreaked havoc in Hanumannagar Bazaar, the old district headquarters of Saptari. The tusker entered the market place in Hanumannagar at around 9:30am from south-western part of...
An area near Nepal-India border in Gobargadha Tapu, Saptari, is being taken over by some families who have migrated from across the Indian border town. These emigres, who hails from the village of Kataiya in Supaul district of Indian state...
A Filipino man's vacation in the "Land Down Under" turned into a nightmare after he got infected with a "flesh-eating" disease, which necessitated the amputation of his legs Sixty-five-year-old Terry Pareja was visiting his relatives in the Australian town of...
