Nepalese people look at the view of the city from the hilltop at Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery (locally known as Seto Gumba) on the outskirts of Kathmandu yesterday.

A man was stabbed to death and three others injured in a terrifying knife ambush by masked thugs on a night of Halloween mayhem in London.

The UK’s biggest regeneration project at Old Oak Common has been criticised as “a mess” in a review which calls on the government to reduce the financial burden it could place on Londoners.

The woman at the centre of the snowballing political scandal engulfing President Park Geun-hye is a “flight risk” and has been placed under emergency detention, South Korean prosecutors said yesterday.

Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party is pushing for peace with mainland China and holds out the possibility of a peace pact, the party’s chairwoman told Chinese leader Xi Jinping yesterday, the party said.

China showed its Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter in public for the first time yesterday, opening the country’s biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers with a show of its military clout.

A man who had been on the run for nearly a week after being suspected of killing two relatives and trying to decapitate them was killed on Sunday night in a shootout with police.

A federal judge rejected a bid by the four largest US airlines to dismiss nationwide antitrust litigation by passengers who accused them of conspiring to raise fares by keeping seating capacity artificially low.

Morocco has arrested 11 people suspected of involuntary manslaughter over the death of a fish seller whose crushing in a rubbish truck sparked widespread demonstrations, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A Russian opposition activist who became the first person to be jailed for repeatedly staging peaceful anti-Kremlin protests under a new law says he is being tortured in prison and fears for his life.

A truck conveying eight suspected Boko Haram Islamists exploded near a military checkpoint in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing the occupants, an army spokesman told AFP.

At least 12 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on Tuesday after a huge blast ripped through an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard, trapping others inside the vessel, local officials said.