Hundreds in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday (Sept 6) against an advisory commission led by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to the conflict between the country's Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, which has cast a pall over democratic reforms.
Singaporeans across the island who show clear signs of a Zika infection will from tomorrow be able to test if they have the virus at a subsidised rate of $60.
Bangladesh hanged a wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party late on Saturday (Sept 3) for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the Muslim-majority nation.
Thai police said on Monday (Sept 5) that they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim separatists in connection with a wave of bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis yesterday, fast-tracked to canonisation just 19 years after her death.
The death toll from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-crime crusade has passed the 2,400 mark in the less than three months since he took office, police figures showed on Sunday (Sept 4).
The British government will set out this week the work it has done so far on preparing to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday.
A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017.
Dozens of Indonesian men, suspected of being hired by an oil palm plantation company, threatened to kill environmental investigators checking on fires on Sumatra island, the environment ministry said.
The number of locally transmitted Zika cases stands at 242 on Sunday (Sept 4), one week since the outbreak was first reported in Singapore. This is up by 27 from 215 cases on Saturday.
Turkey has swept Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not met a Turkish demand to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilised a million demonstrators on Thursday (Sept 1) in the biggest rally in decades, demanding a referendum on removing him from power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a conciliatory tone before talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a territorial dispute that's prevented the two countries from signing a World War II peace treaty.
An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday (Sept 1), two days before it had been due to blast off and place in orbit a satellite to be used by Facebook to expand internet access in Africa.
Life on Earth is even older than we thought, said Australian scientists on Thursday (Sept 1) as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
In a closely-watched speech detailing his policy on illegal immigration, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump insisted that he will build a wall along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants and will create a taskforce that will hunt undocumented immigrants to deport from the United States.
Singapore reported the first case of pregnant woman with Zika virus infection, among 24 newly reported cases of locally transmitted Zika virus, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
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