Petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station on Saturday but no one was injured, the government said, as pro-democracy protesters again took to the streets angry ...

North Korea's foreign ministry ‘strongly demanded’ on Saturday that Japan pay compensation for a fishing boat that sank when it collided with a Japanese patrol boat earlier this week ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to arrive in Nepal on Saturday for talks with Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and is expected to sign a deal expanding a railway link between the Himalayan nation and Tibet ...

An overloaded bus plunged down a hill in central Nepal, killing at least 11 and injuring 108 people, an official said Saturday.

Powerful Typhoon Hagibis barrelled through Japan Saturday, killing at least two people and lashing large parts of the country with "unprecedented" rain that caused floods

An Iraq-Qatar co-production looking at life in war-torn Baghdad and a Vietnamese tale of a young bookie struggling to support himself and his loved ones have shared the top award ...

US officials on Friday promised a ‘Phase 1’ deal with China on a host of conflicts from intellectual property to currency was imminent, but China's official state-owned news organisation Xinhua struck a more cautious tone.

South Africa’s scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma will face trial on corruption charges over a 1990s arms deal, a court ruled yesterday, in one of multiple alleged graft cases over his long political career.

At least 23 Palestinians were injured yesterday by live bullets and many others by rubber-coated rounds as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of protesters

As part of its ongoing student outreach initiative, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) – a member of Qatar Foundation – recently showcased its degrees to students and the community at ‘Discover Education City’ (DEC).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday took Chinese President Xi Jinping on a tour of a seaside temple and monument complex as part of an informal summit against the backdrop of strained ties over the Kashmir.

QFFD announced a multi-year donation of $50mn to the Global Fund, which aims to eliminate diseases such as Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis by 2030.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has said that Qatar will host an unforgettable edition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, pointing out that holding the World Cup in November and December will be in favour of the tournament and the players.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman suffered through a three-hour commute in Manila’s clogged street after drawing public anger by insisting there was no traffic problem in the Philippines capital.

At least 30 tubs of dead fish were found floating in the Las Pinas-Paranaque Critical Habitat Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) yesterday morning.

Lawmakers yesterday blasted Manila Water Co. Inc. for warning that water rates could increase “exponentially” if the Supreme Court decision upholding the massive penalty imposed on water concessionaires is implemented.

China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang.

As Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti takes on his latest challenge, he should remember this simple mantra: Think globally, act locally.

Too much of the world is still addicted to coal power even as climate change “threatens the viability of human societies”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday, singling out Asian nations over their ongoing use of the fossil fuel.

When Beach Handball throws off at the ANOC World Beach Games Qatar 2019, two World Champions will chase glory. And the gold medal.

Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow yesterday, aged 85, after a long illness.

‘It was a good day for us. I am very happy with the boys’ performance against strong rivals’

HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani will deliver the keynote address at the 2019 Global Security Forum, the organisers announced in a tweet Friday.

A potential success in the upcoming ANOC World Beach Games Qatar 2019 will be just another great frame for the 3x3 Basketball national team of the host country.

British and EU negotiators yesterday agreed to intensify efforts to find a new Brexit withdrawal agreement, just days before a key European summit.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused international media of a “double standard”, saying that news outlets give more prominence to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong than to the situation in disputed Kashmir.

‘We want to put our best performance out and we really want to get a result out of that’

Japan braced yesterday for a powerful typhoon barrelling towards Tokyo that has already forced the cancellation of two Rugby World Cup matches, disrupted the Suzuka Grand Prix and grounded flights.

Nobel laureate and girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has entered her final year at Oxford University.

Last month, the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, arrived in the remote town of Pevek in the country’s Siberian Arctic region.

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo ordered beefed-up security measures yesterday after two militants from an IS-linked terror group stabbed his chief security minister, with the politician in hospital recovering from emergency surgery.