Indian police say man fatally stabs 14 relatives, hangs self

A man in western India fatally stabbed 14 members of his family, including seven children, yesterday before hanging himself, police said. Hasnain Warekar, 35, went on his overnight killing spree following a Saturday

Philippines | 30 years after Marcos’ fall, his son aims for vice president

Three decades after a “people power” revolt ousted his dictator father, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was wooing voters on the campaign trail this week in his bid to become the

Indonesia | Top court finds two guilty of sex abuse of students

  Indonesia’s Supreme Court has overruled the acquittals of two teachers, a Canadian and an Indonesian, on charges they sexually abused three children at a prestigious international school, and ordered longer

Madonna makes surprise visits to Manila children’s shelters

  Pop star Madonna made surprise visits to two Manila shelters for orphans and street children, taking selfies with kids a day before the start of her two-night concert stint in

Cambodia | Smart rats sniffing out vast mine fields

It’s been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they’ve scurried and sniffed their way across 775 square

Wreckage of missing plane found in Nepal; all 23 aboard dead

Rescuers found the wreckage of a small plane carrying 23 people that crashed in bad weather yesterday into a mountain in central Nepal, police said. All those aboard, including two

Fiji | 10-month-old baby among those presumed dead in cyclone

A 10-month-old baby is among those missing and presumed dead yesterday from the massive cyclone that hit Fiji after the boy’s parents told a local television station they lost hold

Australia | School criticized for allowing cross-dressing

An Australian high school has been criticized for allowing students to wear boy or girl uniforms regardless of gender. The Newtown High School of Performing Arts in inner Sydney changed its

N. Korean restaurants feel the pinch amid standoff with South

  Shortly after 7:30, the servers at China’s biggest North Korean restaurant become singers. They emerge for their nightly performances in orange and purple satin dresses and stiletto heels, belting out ballads with

Fiji cyclone death toll reaches 29 after island leveled

  Ten people have died on a single small island in Fiji as the total death toll from a powerful cyclone climbed to 29, officials said yesterday. Government spokesman Ewan Perrin said the

Standoff ends between doctors and Australian government

A one-year-old baby of an asylum-seeking family from Nepal was discharged from an Australian hospital on Monday, ending a 10-day standoff between medical staff and the government over whether she

Philippines | Muslim militants attack troops, more than 20 dead

A Philippine military official says up to 20 Muslim militants are believed to have been killed in three days of sporadic clashes that also left three soldiers dead in the country’s south. Military

Aussie banks’ debt is ugliest in more than a decade versus U.S.

Australian bank bonds haven’t been this expensive to insure compared to U.S. financial debt in more than a decade. As the prospects for world growth have dimmed and global markets have

Philippine elections body urged to stop Pacquiao fight

World boxing star Manny Pacquiao’s April 9 bout with Timothy Bradley came under a cloud yesterday when the Philippine elections commission was asked to stop the Las Vegas match because it would

Bangladesh editor admits bogus stories fed by military

  An editor of one of Bangladesh’s most respected newspapers has sparked an uproar by admitting that eight years ago, he published unsubstantiated reports alleging corruption by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,

Death toll from Fiji cyclone hits 18 as aid sent to islands

The death toll from a ferocious cyclone which tore through Fiji over the weekend has risen to 18 as authorities yesterday began to get a grasp on the scale of the disaster

Fijians told to stay inside after ferocious cyclone kills 6

Fijians were told to stay inside for a second straight night yesterday as officials scrambled to restore services and assess damage in the wake of a ferocious cyclone that left

Deadly north India protests lead to New Delhi water shortage

As thousands of members of an underprivileged community in northern India continue to protest to demand government benefits, the more than 16 million people in India’s capital are facing a

India | Air travel booms in the country, strains creaky infrastructure

  Lightson Ngashangva still remembers the long train journeys followed by interminable bus rides each summer when he went home from New Delhi to his village in India’s remote northeast. Now, when

Seoul’s spy service says North Korea is preparing attacks

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching “terror” attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said yesterday, as worries about the North grow after its

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