The once-powerful uncle of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un has been executed after being purged for "acts of treachery", state media say.
A massive explosion hits an area near the US embassy and the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the central part of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Pakistan says it had agreed with Iran to speed up implementation of a gas pipeline project designed to link Iran's giant South Pars gas field with consumers in South Asia.
Outdoor radiation levels have at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant has increased to levels that could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has officially welcomed his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai at Sa’dabad Palace in northern Tehran, where the two presidents are scheduled to hold their meeting.
Australian police has said an Aussie man has been charged over recruiting terrorists for an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria.
The US Navy has deployed sophisticated surveillance aircraft to Japan, officials said Monday, amid rising tensions over China's territorial claims in the region.
The US military has refused to halt operating in China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea.
China on Friday scrambled fighter jets to monitor US and Japanese aircraft which entered its new air defense zone, state media said.
Protesters in Thailand stormed into the national army headquarters on Friday, breaking into their latest high-profile target in a bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.