Kang Sok-ju, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)

Hassan Abboud, the leader of the Syrian Islamist insurgents Ahrar al-Sham has been killed with other top commanders in a bomb blast at a meeting.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Japan visit is said to lift bilateral relations to a new height and is considered a step towards the establishment of a new alliance in the region.

A global military intervention is needed to curb the largest ever Ebola outbreak, according to the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

One hundred and twenty-two of the 123 Cambodian lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties began to vote for their leadership in the legislative body on August 26.

Heavy rain has hampered rescue operations in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture where a deadly landslide killed at least 39 people.

Thailand's junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has been named the new prime minister of the southeast Asian nation.

Malaysia will drape itself in black for a national day of mourning on Friday (Aug 22) as it welcomes home the remains of 20 citizens killed on downed Flight MH17.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a "high-risk" country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, Zmapp, to treat people infected with Ebola, the Liberian government says.

ASEAN and its dialogue partners have agreed to intensify collaboration through the effective implementation of existing joint action plans between the bloc and each partner

Google has said it will give preference to more secure websites in its search rankings from now on.

An attack that killed 10 people at a UN-run Gaza school was a "moral outrage and a criminal act", UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said.

Palestinian Territories: Israeli troops began observing a unilateral seven-hour humanitarian lull in most of the Gaza Strip from 0700 GMT on Monday (August 3).