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A fire at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Karachi killed at least 11 people on Monday and injuring dozens, media reported. The blaze broke out in a ground floor kitchen of the Regent Plaza hotel and trapped...

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who won praise for his economic stewardship after the global financial crisis, unexpectedly announced his resignation on Monday after eight years in power, backing his finance minister to take the helm. Bill English, deputy...

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro's ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the legacy of one of the 20th century's...

South Korea's embattled President Park Geun-hye faces a pivotal week, with an effort to impeach her gaining support from within her own party and the heads of the country's biggest business groups set to give testimony to a parliamentary...

Chinese state media on Monday continued to play down the protocol-bending phone call last week between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan's president, with editorials in two newspapers saying the move showed Trump's inexperience. China's national English-language newspaper, the China...

Sharp Corp (6753.T) CEO and President Tai Jeng-wu told reporters on Monday he would step down once the Japanese electronics maker turns profitable again at the net level and its shares return to the first section of the Tokyo...

Michigan must begin its presidential recount at noon Monday, a federal judge ruled in a late-night order that could make it more likely the state will complete the count ahead of a Dec. 13 deadline. In his ruling Sunday night,...

Let me start this tribute in this manner One day, a schoolteacher wrote on the board the following:      *9×1=7*      *9×2=18*      *9×3=27*      *9×4=36*      *9×5=45*      *9×6=54*      *9×7=63*      *9×8=72*      *9×9=81*      *9×10=90* When she was done, she looked back at the students and they were...

I could remember the moment and where I was when news broke  that Fidel   Castro Ruiz, the international symbol of revolutionary change, had   passed  away on Friday November 25. It was  itself an historical moment;   that the most strident...

The US president-elect, Mr Donald Trump threw the luvvies of the world a   curveball with his comments to President Rodrigo Duterte of the   Philippines that his controversial fight against drugs was being carried   out "the right way".  For the...