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Yusuke Suzuki of Japan broke the 20-kilometer race walk world record yesterday at the Asian Race Walking Championships. Suzuki won the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in his home town with
The president of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu appealed to a U.N. disaster conference Saturday for help as a powerful cyclone swept across his archipelago, driving painfully home the
Here’s an easy one: North Korea’s Kim Jong Il orders a famous South Korean film director and his actress wife kidnapped and brought into the country to remake a tepid
Australia’s government was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of suicide bombers from the Islamic State movement that struck Iraq’s embattled Anbar province. The Islamic State
Australia has offered to cover Indonesia’s costs for keeping two Australian heroin traffickers in prison for life if Jakarta grants permanent stays of execution, the foreign minister said yesterday. Australia is lobbying hard
The parents of the now-estranged wife of Thailand’s crown prince have been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of defaming the monarchy, in the latest
A flight attendant who says she was living her dream by working for Korean Air is now suing the airline and its infamous nut rage executive, claiming the bizarre onboard
Pakistan’s largest city was on edge yesterday after troops raided the headquarters of a well-known political party, arresting about 20 suspects and seizing weapons, a spokesman said. The early morning raid in
Hundreds of riot police charged at students protesting Myanmar’s new education law yesterday, pummeling them with batons and then dragging them into trucks, bringing a quick, harsh end to a weeklong standoff. Police
U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert vowed yesterday not to change his “open and friendly” approach to diplomacy, as he left a South Korean hospital after five days of treatment following a
An anonymous blackmailer threatened to poison infant formula in New Zealand to protest the country’s use of poisonous baits for pest control, and sent dairy giant Fonterra packets of milk
Bangladesh’s government has ordered a North Korean diplomat to leave the country after discovering USD1.4 million of unauthorized gold in his bag when he arrived at Dhaka’s airport, a Foreign
Relatives of two Australian death row prisoners made their first visit yesterday to the Indonesian prison island where the convicted drug traffickers are to be executed soon by firing squads. The
The number of deaths in jetliner disasters spiked last year despite there being fewer accidents in total, an international airline industry group said yesterday. The International Air Transport Association said in
South Korea’s president visited injured U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert yesterday amid an outpouring of public sympathy and support for the envoy, who is recovering from an attack by a knife-wielding
Five people were killed in their homes yesterday in a stabbing spree in rural Japan, police said, in a rare case of major violence in the country. A 40-year-old neighbor of
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday on a visit to Japan, where bitter disputes mark the country’s attempts to define its wartime actions, that Germany was able to return to
Families of the 239 people on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 yesterday marked the anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, vowing to never give up on the desperate search for wreckage and answers
The government of northeastern India’s Nagaland state has suspended three officials and deployed paramilitary soldiers after a mob stormed a high-security jail, dragged away a man accused of rape and then lynched
The first comprehensive report into the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 yesterday revealed that the battery of an underwater locator beacon had expired more than a year before the plane vanished
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