Singapore's Civil Defence Force was among the first to respond to the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The two-week ...

Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. More than 220,000 people across a dozen ...

DUBAI: Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday (Dec 25) that Israel has set new conditions that have led to delays ...

Kolkata and its Chinatown were once home to the country’s first ever Chinese community. Today, there are still close to 2,000 ...

The plane's course on Flight Radar showed it crossing the Caspian Sea away from its normal route and then circling over the ...

Pope Francis made wrapped a historic 11-day trip in September, making stops in four nations in Asia and Oceania for the first ...

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes ...

BEIJING: China's box office revenues for Christmas Eve plummeted to the lowest in at least 13 years, data from ticket booking ...

This was the 13th large-scale strike on Ukraine's energy system this year, the latest in Russia's campaign targeting the ...

Pope Francis also renewed his call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas war and for the release of the remaining Israeli ...

BEIJING: Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya on Wednesday (Dec 25) raised "serious concerns" over China's military ...

A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation rose to 3.0 per cent in November, accelerating for a second straight ...