The Democratic People's Republic of Korea blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages as people in Pyongyang once again found that Web and 3G access was paralyzed amid bickering between the United States and the Asian country over an earlier cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
Twenty-four people are dead and eight others are missing due to floods and mudslides caused by incessant rain in Sri Lanka during the past week, officials said on Sunday. About 106,000 people have lost their homes or evacuated to safer locations, the disaster management center said
Critics and early viewers agree that The Interview is less than a masterpiece. But thanks to threats from hackers that nearly derailed its release, it has become an event.
Russia on Thursday offered sympathy to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amid the Sony hacking scandal, saying the movie that sparked the dispute was so scandalous that Pyongyang's anger was "quite understandable".
Like tens of thousands of Cubans, Gerardo Luis wants to get to the United States and he's suddenly worried that time may be running out.
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of a 16-year-old high school student arrested for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following accusations his detention was the latest sign of the country veering toward authoritarianism.
The wedding season is in full swing in India, marking what should be the busiest time of year for the traditional brass bands that lead raucous processions announcing the arrival of the bridegroom to the neighborhood.
Crying onlookers took part in beachside memorials and religious services across Asia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that left more than a quarter-million people dead in one of modern history's worst natural disasters.
Malaysia's worst flooding in decades forced more than 105,000 people to flee as Prime Minister Najib Razak came under fire after photos showed him golfing with US President Barack Obama during the storms.
The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son's release on Thursday, asking the group to treat him well in captivity as a fellow Muslim.
The year 2014 was marked by brutal deadly attacks in Pakistan, the deadliest of which occurred on Dec 16 in the northwestern city of Peshawar where at least 132 school children and nine staff members were killed and another 125 people, mostly young students, injured.
US President Barack Obama marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying tribute to the US military, telling troops on Christmas Day that their sacrifices have allowed a more peaceful, prosperous world to emerge out of the ashes of Sept 11, 2001.
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