The death toll from a ferry disaster in Bangladesh jumped to 26 on Monday after rescuers pulled the vessel out of the water and found more bodies inside, officials said Monday. The sunken ferry was extracted from the heavily polluted Shitalakshya R...

A group of bar, karaoke and mahjong parlour owners have gone on a symbolic hunger strike in Hong Kong over anti-coronavirus measures that have kept them shuttered for most of the last year. The four-day protest started on the pavement outside the H...

India's worst-hit state ramped up its coronavirus restrictions as nationwide the daily infections exceeded 100,000 for the first time on Monday. The country is only the second -- after the United States -- to record so many new cases in one day. H...

A Singaporean blogger said he had crowdfunded almost $100,000 that he was ordered to pay as damages for defaming the prime minister by sharing an article on Facebook. Leong Sze Hian was sued by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after shari...

Equities mostly rose in Asia on Monday following a forecast-busting US jobs report and as investors kept tabs on the progress of Joe Biden's latest economy-boosting spending package. With holidays keeping business limited, trading was light, but th...

Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a "traffic-light" system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of May 17 to relaunch international trav...

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak on Monday began an appeal against his conviction on corruption charges and 12-year jail term linked to the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal. Najib was found guilty last year on all counts in the first o...

More than 75 people have died and dozens are still missing after flash floods and landslides hit Indonesia and neighbouring East Timor, officials said Monday. Floods sparked by torrential rain have wreaked havoc and destruction on islands stretchin...

Mozambique's military said Sunday a "significant" number of militants had been killed during a battle over a key northern town and gas hub captured by the Islamic State last month. Palma was seized by the jihadists during coordinated attacks on Mar...

The man behind Vietnam's successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, was formally sworn in as president in Hanoi on Monday. Phuc, 66, was Vietnam's prime minister for the last five years, a period in which the economy boomed,...

Israel's legal and political dramas converge Monday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due in court for his corruption trial and the president to launch talks to help form a government. Judges have ordered Netanyahu appear at the Jerusalem Dis...

China's "wolf warrior" diplomats are back after a brief lull, firing insults over Twitter, smearing critics and suggesting conspiracies. The hyperactivity of the envoys follows renewed global pressure over Beijing's treatment of the Muslim Uyghur m...

The EU's top two officials head to Turkey on Tuesday to lay out to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the bloc's conditions for improved ties after a dip in tensions. European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission chief Ursula von de...

"The Trial Of The Chicago 7" was judged the year's best performance at the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday -- a verdict that strengthens the film's case for the Oscars later this month. Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama based on 1968 ...

The number of Covid-19 cases within the Vancouver Canucks organization continued to climb on Sunday with more than half the players and coaches reportedly having tested positive. More players' names were added to the team's Covid-19 protocol list o...