Volunteers are rushing to hoist food and water up into trees in sweltering southern Mexico, but help came too late for the ...

When he was a 20-week-old embryo -- before he even had a real name -- Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest-ever ...

Rattled travellers and crew landed in Singapore on Wednesday after a terrifying high-altitude plunge on a flight from London ...

Asian investors fought Wednesday to revive a recent rally across markets as they turned their focus on the release later in ...

Vietnam's rubber-stamp parliament voted in public security minister To Lam as the country's new president on Wednesday, after ...

Huge crowds of Iranians thronged the streets of the capital Tehran on Wednesday for the funeral procession of president ...

At age 40, Japanese competitive breakdancer Ayumi Fukushima has been busting moves for longer than some of her rivals have ...

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Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record Wednesday as the person to have scaled Mount Everest the most times, ...

Rahmanullah Gurbaz left his hospitalised mother's bedside in Afghanistan to play a pivotal role in propelling Kolkata Knight Riders into the final on his first IPL appearance this season.

Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in a retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.

Thousands of tech enthusiasts are expected to start filing into Europe's self-declared biggest startup event VivaTech in Paris on Wednesday, which this year will focus on artificial intelligence.