In a big-ticket omnibus concert with Korean artistes at Katara, last week, Qatar got a taste of the wide-ranging vocal exploits of David Dong Qyu Lee, who is fast emerging as a prolific counter-tenor of his generation.
A massive search operation to hunt down militants who escaped after a failed attempt to attack an army camp in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town was called off yesterday morning, officials said.
A Singapore court sentenced 17-year-old blogger Amos Yee to six weeks in jail on Thursday for ‘wounding religious feelings’, his second prison term in a year ...
Delhi airport authorities barred a prominent Kashmiri activist Wednesday from flying out of India despite holding a valid visa, a move his group described as an attempt to deny human rights in the violence-hit region.
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security, as world leaders including US President Barack Obama gathered at a G20 summit in China for the second day.
It’s no secret that sound therapy is one of the oldest and most natural forms of healing techniques known to man.
The Olympic flag arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday as Japan's capital gears up to host the 2020 Games, with officials promising smooth sailing after Rio's sometimes shaky 2016 instalment.
Malaysian Muslims offer prayers on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at the National mosque in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
A long-awaited Indian bankruptcy code may soon win parliamentary approval, but struggling creditors – above all state banks trying to recover $100bn in bad loans – shouldn’t start celebrating just yet.
Egyptian police raided the press syndicate in Cairo late on Sunday and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the labour union called ...
Palestinian workers demonstrate against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip during a rally marking May Day yesterday in Gaza City.
A Serbian employee of a German company who was kidnapped at the weekend in a remote part of Libya was released, the foreign ministry in Belgrade said.
