The grim investigation begins after the siege at a Sydney cafe left two hostages and the gunman dead in an incident the Australian PM describes as "tragic beyond words."

The Korean Air executive who kicked up a fuss over a bag of nuts will resign from her remaining posts with the airline, the company chairman -- who is also her father -- said Friday.

A city is China is giving tired travelers some peace of mind, launching a high-tech system that reveals when bed linen was last washed.

Police deployed to prevent further casualties after India tops list for selfie-induced fatalities

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has "red flagged" Thailand over what it sees as significant safety concerns within the country's aviation sector.

Gayle Lemmon says the Peshawar school attack was not a one-off and we must speak out for the right of children to education -- and peace.

So long as Pakistan perceives or projects India as a core threat, it's unlikely to turn on its strategic assets, writes Michael Kugelman.

A Boeing 737 carrying 132 people crashed early Monday in China. Although Boeing's 737 has faced extraordinarily high-profile safety concerns over the past three years, the plane that crashed Monday was a different version of the aircraft than the embattled 737 Max that shook Boeing to its core.

India might just be the most colorful country in the world.

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Opium production in southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" has tripled since 2006, fueling an illicit drugs trade worth $16.3 billion, a new United Nations report says.

A nude sketching class aims to help Japan's middle-aged virgins by allowing them to spend time with a real female body.

While its recent attack on a military school in Peshawar, Pakistan brought international outrage, the Pakistani Taliban has long taken credit for an extensive list of assaults on civilians and the military in the country's largely-ungoverned tribal areas along the Afghan border -- and further afield...

It's the story that keeps on giving -- but what happens next could shape the future of football for years to come.

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What would happen if the legend of the lost City of Atlantis was crossed with the screenplay of Kevin Costner's 1995 hit movie Waterworld? Maybe something like Ocean Spiral -- an underwater metropolis which generates all of its own energy from the seabed and is capable of providing homes and accommo...

China's 1.3 billion citizens may soon find it much harder to belt out their national anthem at will.

Former Dallas Mavericks center Shawn Bradley was left paralyzed after a car struck him from behind while he was riding his bicycle in January, the team said.

Once one of the world's most powerful travel documents, the might of the United States passport has been diminished during the pandemic. With US Covid-19 cases now past the 32.4 million mark, some nations continue to view vacationers warily even as more Americans get vaccinated.

Having endured a bloody civil war from 1983 until 2009, Sri Lanka is now at peace and developing rapidly. That's good news for the country as a whole, but the island nation's leopards are under threat.

The U.S. government is preparing to name North Korea as the culprit behind the Sony hack that downed a movie and made public confidential data of the company.