An Indian Islamic preacher, Dr Zakir Naik, whose teachings were popular with one of the terrorists in the Dhaka cafe attack, has denied advocating terrorism as the authorities in India and Bangladesh investigate whether his sermons could radicalise South...
TOKYO - A Hawaiian Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Tokyo early Monday, bursting its tyres and forcing the closure of one runway and the cancellation of several other flights, although no one was injured, local media reported.Flight...
More than 100 backpackers slept in their tents while perched on a 1,700-meter cliff face after they set up tents from Friday to Saturday along a plank road that hugs Laojun Mountain in Henan province.The spine-tingling campsite, however, rewarded...
BEIJING - Communist Party officials in China who show poor leadership that causes serious problems will face punishment under new accountability rules unveiled late on Sunday, in the latest effort to improve discipline amid a corruption crackdown.The rules especially...
TAIPEI - Police in Taiwan said on Sunday they had arrested three out of 16 foreign suspects they believe hacked into the cash machines of a major local bank, withdrawing more than US$2 million.They are accused of targeting First...
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ISLAMABAD - The strangling of Pakistani social media starlet Qandeel Baloch by her brother has once again cast a spotlight on the custom of "honour killings", which claims around a thousand lives in Pakistan every year.So-called honour killings are...
An 'armless' beggar in China was exposed by a security guard as a fraud after the latter pulled off the beggar's t-shirt to reveal that he was not disabled at all.According to Chinese news site NetEase and Shanghaiist, the...
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD - The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risque social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, on Sunday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called "honour killings" in the South Asian nation.Muhammad...
Hanoi - Scores of activists were detained in Vietnam's capital on Sunday as they gathered to protest against China after it rejected a recent international ruling that dismissed its claims to much of the South China Sea.Anti-Chinese sentiment runs...
Imagine a boy who grows up in a sheltered environment, socialised in his isolated world among his own kind. One day he decides he wants to play with the other children in the playground nearby.He is tall and strong,...
