In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly ...

Iran, which gave contracts to publishers in China to print copies of the Quran, has said the books are full of spelling mistakes, the Mehr news agency...

Japanese finance minister Yoshihiko Noda was chosen on Monday to become the sixth prime minister in five years, but he needs to overcome a divided...

Increasing bride imports and fears of rising ethnically mixed population are forcing Chinese authorities to tackle the country's sex ratio imbalance...

The US should demand accountability from Pakistan for the activities of all terror networks operating from its soil and should not accept the...

A slight, bespectacled 57-year-old scholar who says he learnt the ABC of Marxism while doing his doctorate in Jawaharlal Nehru University became Nepal's ...

At least three dozen soldiers were killed and scores injured when hundreds of Taliban insurgents holed up in Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn...

China's media and culture police is on a campaign to shut down local versions of Twitter saying it was suspending accounts...

NEW DELHI: History was made in Parliament on Saturday when the two Houses bowed to Anna Hazare's campaign, powered by a groundswell of popular support, for a strong and independent Lokpal.....

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced on Friday he is resigning after almost 15 months in office, amid plunging approval ratings over his government's handling of the...