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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told a meeting of the 15-member council on Myanmar that the council must hold Myanmar military accountable for their actions and pressure Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge these horrific acts that are taking...

The meeting, held in every few years, is likely to be last attended by Elizabeth. Any decision about the future will be made by the Commonwealth heads of government at the time of the Queen's death, but there is no formal process of choosing her successor...

Krishna Kumari will be the first female Hindu lawmaker in Pakistan since 1947 when Pakistan gained independence from Britain.

The offending article published last week by top-selling Malay-language daily, Sinar Harian, included a bullet point list giving tips on how to identify gays or lesbians.

India has traditionally held influence in the Indian Ocean atoll nation where China has been trying to make inroads because of the country's strategic location. Experts say the Maldivian crisis could well become a new power struggle between India and Chin...

The gleaming gold 75-storey Gevora Hotel stands 356 metres, or nearly a quarter of a mile, tall.

Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine state and crossed into southern Bangladesh since August, when attacks on security posts by insurgents triggered a military crackdown that the United Nations has said may amount to genocide.

The Antonov An-148 plane operated by the domestic Saratov Airlines was flying to Orsk, a city in the Urals, and crashed in the Ramensky district outside Moscow.

Donald Trump's decision to block the release of the memo infuriated Democrats, who said it showed a double standard on transparency on the part of the Republican president.

Internal internet and wifi systems crashed at about 7:15 pm (1015 GMT) on Friday and were still not back to normal at midday on Saturday, Games organisers said.

Catholics in China are split between "underground" communities that recognise the pope and a state-controlled group where bishops are appointed by the government in collaboration with local Church communities.

Maldivian envoy Ahmed Mohamed's comments come in the backdrop of Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen sending special envoys to China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to brief them about the deepening political crisis in the country.

Nervous residents endured more than 200 aftershocks, including a 5.7 quake late on Wednesday and smaller tremors early on Thursday. Aftershocks with a magnitude of at least 5.0 could rock the island over the next two weeks.

Mashal Khan was stripped, beaten and shot by a gang mostly of students last April before being thrown from the second floor of his dormitory at Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan.

Tucked into the nose of the mammoth SpaceX unmanned rocket was tech pioneer Elon Musk's own cherry red convertible Tesla roadster, a vehicle that was in fact manned -- by a spacesuited dummy nicknamed Starman.

The error came less than a month after a false incoming ballistic missile alarm was sent out to the mobile phones of Hawaii residents.