More than 200 people have been killed and millions displaced as seasonal monsoon rains triggered floods, landslides and building collapses in South Asia, officials said on Wednesday. Officials disclosed that the death toll in monsoon…

A court in Pakistan on Tuesday ordered the government to take custody of two Hindu sisters allegedly kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. Police said the case triggered a quarrel with Hindu-majority neighbour India….

A Tanzanian court sentenced a prominent Chinese businesswoman, Yang Feng Glan, dubbed the “Ivory Queen” to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants to Asia – a…

Chinese movie actor Gao Yunxiang and a producer pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Friday to charges of sexual assault, setting the course for a trial later this year, a court official said….

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck off Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, in the Southernmost part of Japan’s Southwestern Kyushu island, on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The JMA revised its preliminary report…