Asia

Japan warned radioactive levels had become "significantly" higher around a quake-stricken nuclear power plant on Tuesday...

A second explosion has hit the nuclear plant in Japan that was damaged in Friday's earthquake,...

The government declared a state of atomic power emergency Friday after the Tohoku region was hit...

Hundreds killed as tsunami submerges towns following massive earthquake Kyodo News The strongest earthquake ever recorded...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday he would not step down after it emerged...

TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter Scale hit Japan's northeastern...

NEW DELHI: Apart from nuclear missile bases in Qinghai province which clearly target India, China has...

Bangladesh's High Court is set to resume its hearing into whether Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus was...

Japanese news media say Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano will temporarily serve in the additional post...

BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Thursday vowed to "actively...

BEIJING: A total of 35,860 Chinese citizens had been evacuated from Libya as of 11:10 p.m....

COLOMBO: Two fighter jets have collided and crashed while practicing for an exhibition marking Sri Lanka's...

Though the world's attention has recently been focused on the unveiling of China's first ever stealth...

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan: Two bomb explosions tore through a crowd of villagers watching a dog fight in...

KABUL, Afghanistan: Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in...