Japan has urged businesses and households in parts of the country to cut electricity use by up to 15% to avoid possible blackouts. The country is facing power shortages this summer because its 50 nuclear reactors have been taken offline. Public...

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that Islamist militants from Al-Qaeda must be behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week. Fifty-five people were killed and 372 were wounded when two car bombers blew themselves up in th...

The Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) will host its next board meeting in New Delhi in October to decide on a wide range of projects for the next year, official sources has said. "We want to attract the interest of Asian opinion makers and experts...

President Asif Ali Zardari has left for Chicago to attend a NATO summit as Pakistan mulls the reopening of supplies for the coalition forces in Afghanistan, a media report said on Friday. Zardari will be in Chicago for the 25th NATO Summit being h...

A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents. Local official Tran Bao Que says the bus smashed through the rails of a bridge last night an...

US President Barack Obama will meet his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai during a NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, a White House official said. "Obviously it is an important meeting because a central focus of the NATO summit will be on Afghanistan...

At least 36 people died in central Vietnam when their bus fell into a river after crashing through the banister of a bridge, media reported on Friday. Some 60 passengers were on board when the accident happened around 10 p.m. Thursday on Serepok B...

6.2-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Chile on Thursday night, US authorities said. The epicentre of the tremor was located 675 km southwest of the port city of Puerto Montt at a depth of 10 km, media quoted the US Geological Survey (USGS) a...

Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropo...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he will attend the two-day NATO summit in Chicago, starting on Sunday. NATO invited President Asif Ali Zardari to attend the meeting earlier this week, following growing signs that Pakistan plans t...