China has deployed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the Paracel chain in the South China Sea, the Taiwanese government said.

The mother of seven of the eight children found dead in a house in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said Saturday morning.

Impact of financial turmoil on Shanghai -- where money rules supreme.

As Pakistan starts three days of mourning, horrifying details emerge about a massacre that left 145 people dead, most of them children.

President Barack Obama touched down in India on Sunday for truncated state visit that has officials claiming a new era in U.S.-India relations is dawning.

Robert Chan lit his first cigarette aged 18. He quickly became hooked, smoking 15 a day for more than a decade.

The NBA has abruptly called off a hotly anticipated press event for the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai, the latest attempt to contain what is fast becoming a political crisis after a team official tweeted support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Terrorists behind the Pakistan school massacre say it was revenge for the killing of its own children -- but the group is being pressed by defections to ISIS.