JAFFNA, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil-run provincial administration said Monday it wants to prove that the central government carried out an operation “akin to genocide” to...
HONOLULU—A judge handed an 18-month prison sentence to a Hawaii man who admitted he falsely reported a possible airplane hijacking because he was drunk and trying...
LOS ANGELES—The former owner of a notorious “revenge porn” website and another California man have been charged with stealing nude photos from hundreds of hacked email...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Thailand’s capital has seen its coldest temperatures in three decades, as the normally balmy Southeast Asian country is experiencing one of its longest winter cold snaps in...
BEIJING—China needs to work with its neighbours to cool rising tensions over its claims to territory in surrounding seas, a top U.S. diplomat said Thursday, adding...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong says it plans to destroy most of its huge stockpile of confiscated illegal ivory. Thursday’s decision comes after similar action by mainland China,...
WASHINGTON—Last year tied for the fourth hottest year on record around the globe. The average world temperature was 58.12 degrees (14.52 Celsius) tying with 2003 for...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia says it has deported “more than a quarter million” foreign migrant workers from the kingdom over the past three months. The Interior...
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis may go to South Korea in August, 20 years after Pope John Paul II last visited the Korean peninsula. The Vatican spokesman, the...
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam has confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nine months. To Duc Sinh, director of Preventive Medicine Center in southern Binh Phuoc...