Two alleged Islamic State group militants stabbed a police officer to death in western Indonesia, authorities said Sunday, in the latest assault targeting officials in the world's most populous Muslim country.

India's leader heads to the US this weekend for his first meeting with President Donald Trump, seeking to build on growing ties between the world's two largest democracies ...

At least 123 people have died and scores more were injured in a fire that broke out after an oil tanker flipped over in central Pakistan early Sunday, an official said.

Thousands of protesters marched yesterday near the US embassy in Seoul, accusing US President Donald Trump of “forcing” South Korea to deploy a controversial American missile defence system opposed by China.

Rescuers scoured through an avalanche of rocks into the night yesterday in an increasingly bleak search for more than 100 people whose southwest China mountain village was buried by a huge landslide.

Traders in various parts of Pakistan offered yesterday mixed views about the sales of Eid-related items.

The death toll from multiple attacks in Pakistan rose to 57, officials said yesterday, a day after the bomb and gun assaults in three cities shook the country as it prepared to mark the end of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month.

A beach in Belgium has been transformed into a giant sandy gallery, featuring larger-than-life superheroes, cartoon characters and Cinderella’s castle, for one of the world’s biggest sand-sculpture festivals.

French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to play an active role in a campaign aimed at securing a global pact to protect the human right to a clean and healthy environment.

Germany had its first taste of panda mania yesterday as two furry ambassadors arrived from China to begin a new life as stars of Berlin’s premier zoo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014, yesterday on a trip quickly denounced by Kiev as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty.

Britain’s parliament was hit by a cyber attack yesterday in which hackers tried to access e-mail accounts, politicians and officials said, just over a month after a ransomware attack crippled parts of the country’s health service.