Democrat Tim Kaine may not come across as poised or as polished as the Republican candidate for vice-president Mike Pence, but he has brought more of a common man quality to the campaign than anyone in either camp.
British Prime Minister Theresa May flew to India yesterday, a nation she called a "key strategic partner", to prepare the ground for key trade agreements after Britain quits the European Union.
White House candidate Donald Trump was bundled off stage by security officers Saturday (Nov 5) after an apparently false gun scare during a campaign appearance.
Wikileaks revelations continue to hound the Democratic campaign even as US President Barack Obama stepped up to Mrs Hillary Clinton's side, criticising FBI director James Comey amid a tightening race in the final days of the presidential campaign.
An impassioned plea by an Indian bride-to-be urging authorities to issue a visa to her Pakistani bridesmaid has gone viral on social media amid worsening ties between the neighbouring countries.
A recent report on the dissemination of radical ideology through school textbooks provides clear evidence that every aspect of life is always political and subject to being politicised, with education being no exception.
Singapore's competitive edge in offering products and services that are cheaper or better may soon be eroded.
An Indonesian search team on Tuesday (Nov 1) found the wreckage of a cargo plane along with the bodies of four crew members in a mountainous part of the country, a government official said.
Nepal has successfully drained part of a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, averting risk of a disastrous flood that could have threatened thousands of lives, officials said yesterday.
South Korean prosecutors on Saturday (Oct 29) raided the presidential Blue House, as well as the homes and offices of senior advisers to President Park Geun Hye, as she struggled with a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving a close family friend.
A photo showing a primary school pupil with one leg chained to a lamp post at an apartment building has gone viral on the internet, shocking many Malaysians who took to social media to voice their anger.
Slightly more than a year after entering politics, Mr Ng Chee Meng and Ong Ye Kung will be promoted to full ministers in the latest round of Cabinet changes announced on Friday (Oct 28).
South Koreans have been riveted for weeks by a scandal involving the president and a shadowy adviser accused of being a "shaman fortune-teller" by opposition politicians.
President Park Geun Hye's brief apology Tuesday afternoon that lasted all of 1 1/2 minutes was the final blow for those who had been holding out hope that what they had seen in the news was not true.
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).
A fire audit will be carried out on all hospitals in Malaysia under the Health Ministry, starting with the oldest and those at high risk.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday (Oct 25) that Ankara could launch a ground operation in Iraq to remove any threats to Turkey that may arise.
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