Category: Asia Pacific

An Egyptian woman has been ordered to pay her former husband £5240 in compensation after he discovered she had lied to him about her virginity. The man accused his wife...

Three men attending a music festival in Saudi Arabia were deported for allegedly being too handsome. According to reports, the young men, who are citizens of the United Arab Emirates,...

Organisers of Japan’s Nagano Marathon said Tuesday they will go ahead with the race as planned this weekend, despite the blasts in Boston that killed at least three people and...

Pakistan’s former military leader Pervez Musharraf has been barred from standing in general elections in May. An election tribunal disqualified him from running in Chitral in the north-west. Earlier, he...

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a huge earthquake hit the border regions between Iran and Pakistan. Tremors were felt across the Gulf region, across Pakistan and well into...

A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air — which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes — missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the...

China appears “frustrated” with volatile rhetoric from its ally North Korea but is eager to see the regime stay in power as a “buffer state” on its border, US spy...

Christopher Crist claims that he went into a dentist office to get a few painful teeth pulled. When he walked out, he had none. The 21-year-old Indiana man, who is...

Seoul said Sunday 13 South Korean firms had been forced to suspend production at a joint industrial zone in the North and warned of a “critical” situation if Pyongyang continued...

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader, has warned longtime ally North Korea that it should not risk a war which could “affect more than 70 percent of the world’s population.”...