Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, ...

Seoul (AFP) – South Korea's opposition said Thursday it filed an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, ...

With Nepal's snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the ...

Tearful mourners gathered Thursday across Asia to commemorate the 220,000 lives lost in the 2004 tsunami. The disaster ...

Beside India's holy rivers, a makeshift city is being built for a Hindu religious festival expected to be so vast it will be ...

Asia's stocks rose in thin Boxing Day trade on Thursday, extending a "Santa Rally" with key markets Hong Kong and Sydney ...

Fearless young opener Sam Konstas slammed an entertaining 60 on debut for Australia on Thursday, showing little respect for ...

The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip last month marked a small but significant step ...

Crews of more than 100 yachts set sail Thursday on a "boat-breaking" Sydney-Hobart yacht race, with gale-force winds and high ...

Two crew are missing after a cargo ship from a company under the Russian defence ministry sank off the coast of Spain in what ...