Bangladesh’s highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence handed down to a top militant and two of his followers for a 2004 attack on the British ambassador that left three people dead.
South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party appears to be on the verge of a breakup amid growing tension between rival factions over an impeachment vote against President Park Geun-hye, observers said Monday.
In a part-session debate in Brussels on Wednesday evening, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) argued over the need for the speedy implementation of the EU-U.S. Data Protection agreement before the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's term of office ends in January.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un recently giving field guidance to various fields of Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province.
Skirmishes between the government troops and a local terror group in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur continued with death toll of the militants reaching to 19, the military said on Monday.
South Korean girl group 2NE1 has officially disbanded, its agency revealed on Friday, confirming that only two of the three remaining members will continue their careers with the company.
South Korean boy bands Bangtan Boys (BTS) and EXO, as well as girl group TWICE, won the top three awards at the 2016 Melon Music Awards (MMA), summing up this year's K-pop calender.
A man described by a US judge as a leader of a group who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group has been jailed for 35 years.
A group of migrants who had marched for two days from the Serbian capital Belgrade were stopped on Sunday at the border with Croatia, a European Union member which said would not allow illegal crossings.
As some protest the election of Donald Trump as president, one group in San Francisco comes together for a giant hug in hopes of overcoming the election bitterness. Diane Hodges reports.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced Sunday the start of an offensive on the Islamic State (IS) military group's de facto Syrian capital of al-Raqqa, while the military operation against the IS in Iraq's Mosul is ahead of schedule.
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar, Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Dzhemilev and two Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group have been shortlisted for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to be announced Thursday.
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, an heir apparent of the biggest South Korean company, was appointed on Thursday to board of directors after a fiasco of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone dented the company's third-quarter earnings.
Tata Group abruptly ousted its chairman of almost four years in a rare display of discord atop India’s biggest conglomerate, casting the spectre of a leadership vacuum at the US$100 billion coffee-to-steel business empire.
The announcement marks the end of an investigation during which billion-dollar deals involving Lotte collapsed
Yemen's dominant Shiite Houthi group and its ally of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's party welcomed on Tuesday a United Nations-proposed 72-hour ceasefire to facilitate humanitarian aid access to the war-stricken Arab country.
The FBI on Monday issued nearly 100 new pages of notes and interview summaries from its yearlong probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, revealing more about