Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan have pledged to work toward implementing new sanctions against North Korea, including capping the country's coal exports to choke off cash flowing into its nuclear weapons program.
ExxonMobile CEO Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's apparent choice to lead the State Department, has ample experience in dealing with other nations, but strictly as a businessman, not a diplomat.
An Afghan official says that at least two Afghan police officers have been killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their patrol in eastern Kunar province.
A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines says the national carrier's chief has resigned following last week's plane crash that killed all 47 people onboard.
A South Korean court has sentenced a former senior prosecutor to four years in prison for pressuring a Korean Air executive to channel about 14.7 billion won ($12 million) in corporate deals to a contractor run by his brother-in-law.
Firefighters have put out a fire that broke out on a high-rise in Dubai's palm-shaped island, the latest in a string of blazes to race up multistory buildings in the skyscraper-packed city.
A staff member at an Australian nursing home was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years in prison for murdering two elderly residents and attempting to murder a third with insulin injections.
A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago, officials said Tuesday.
The minority Christian governor of the Indonesian capital, who is on trial for alleged blasphemy, sobbed in court on Tuesday as he recalled the role of Muslim godparents in his childhood and said he would never intentionally insult Islam.
A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago.
