The bereaved families of 23 children, swept away in a devastating tsunami five years ago, will be compensated 1.4 billion Japanese yen (S$18.7 million) by the governments of Miyagi prefecture and Ishinomaki city, a Japan court ruled on Wednesday (Oct 26).
An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
Armed forces closing in on Mosul said on Tuesday they had secured some 20 villages on the outskirts of the city in the first 24 hours of an operation to retake what is Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq.
The current situation in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has become "unacceptable", foreign ministers of Italy, France, and Germany said after holding talks here on Wednesday.
Fifteen years have passed since the costly U.S.-led war on terror in Afghanistan and the ousting of the hardliner Taliban regime, but insurgency and conflicts are continuing to have a devastating impact on ordinary Afghan lives.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria offered Thursday to physically accompany 900 al-Nusra fighters out of east Aleppo in a bid to prevent more civilian bloodshed there.
Afghan forces regained control of most of the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday (Oct 4) amid sporadic fighting, officials said, as questions arose over how Taleban militants once again managed to penetrate the city's defences.
At least six people were killed and 35 wounded on Monday (Oct 3), when an improvised explosive device tore into a crowded marketplace in a northern Afghan province on the border with Turkmenistan, officials said.
The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will display its smart and civilized nature to tourists during the National Day holiday, after stunning the world at the G20 Summit in early September.
Shovels in hand, crowds of people in southwest China gathered in a street to dig for buried treasure in a scene that went viral after photos circulated online.
The Thai capital of Bangkok has beaten London to be crowned the world’s most popular travel destination this year, according to an annual ranking by global payments and technology company Mastercard released on Thursday.
Since the one-child policy was first enacted over thirty years ago, birthrates across China have remained low. Now, almost a full-year into the new two-child policy, the rate in many areas has seen little to no increase.
Xiamen city in the east coastal province of Fujian is picking up the pieces after Typhoon Meranti passed through Thursday, leaving 28 people dead and 15 others still missing.
What happens when millions of people in a city with poor infrastructure ceremonially sacrifice animals before a torrential monsoon downpour?
In the eerily ravaged old city of Aleppo, nothing indicates the existence of life, but the flute sound of a 70-year-old man, known as Abu Nadim.
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake jolted southeastern South Korea on Monday, the biggest-ever quake striking the country, injuring at least two people and making people feel the tremor nationwide, Seoul's weather agency said.
Istanbul, the most populous city in Turkey, has been working hard to upgrade security measures in an effort to palliate the lingering fear from a spate of terror attacks and a failed military coup.
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