SEOUL, Aug 3 - A record heatwave is gripping the Korean peninsula, sending temperatures soaring across South Korea and North Korea as authorities expand emergency measures and residents seek relief in cooling shelters, beaches and water parks.
There are lots of reports of Ukrainian attacks on Russian shipping, but not so many about Russian attacks on Ukrainian ships. Over the last few months the Russians have been waging their own campaign to try and destroy shipping in and out of Ukrainian ports, which is vital to
The project is open to any Seoul resident experiencing loneliness, including foreign residents.
Scorching heat is set to take hold in Xinjiang too, where almost all of the country’s cotton is grown.
Foreign tourist spending is spreading beyond traditional destinations, data suggested.
Tributes are pouring out across Nepal after an avalanche killed some of the country's best mountaineers.
KOCHI, India, Aug 3 - Heavy rains and floods battered parts of southern India over the weekend, killing at least 11 and displacing thousands in the state of Kerala, and setting off a landslide that killed at least three in neighbouring Karnataka, authorities and news reports
She met with Arnaud de Baecque, resident representative of the ICRC to Myanmar, in Naypyitaw, a spokeswoman said.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan coalition losing in the latest state polls is not an isolated incident. It is the third and most devastating strike in a series that has transformed the political map of Malaysia, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez.
Crocodile attacks have caused 22 deaths between 2023 and 2025, and five fatalities so far in 2026.
SARAWAK, Malaysia, August 3 - Villagers in one indigenous community in Malaysia's Sarawak state once lived by an unspoken rule: leave the crocodile be, and it will leave you alone in turn.
Hundreds pledged abstinence from alcohol in a campaign blending public health with spirituality.
The virus has killed hundreds of millions of birds and mammals in recent years.
The authorities are still investigating how widely the stones spread through the market.
SYDNEY, Aug 3 - Two people were hospitalised after a building collapsed in a central area of Sydney on Monday, emergency services said.
A 350-acre white expanse of marble waste in Kishangarh, western India, has become an unlikely tourist destination.
The United States is Taiwan’s most important international backer and arms supplier.
SYDNEY, Aug 3 - Former Australian radio host Alan Jones arrived at a Sydney court on Monday as his high-profile trial opened on charges that he indecently assaulted and sexually touched six men.
Both countries have said that they will not hesitate to conduct joint interventions in the future.
South Korea’s youth unemployment rate stood at 7 per cent in June.
A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation that traveled to Washington with him for his White House visit regarding plans for Israel to build a domestic stealth fighter plane and an accompanying
The high-profile case has shocked Malaysia and sparked debate about the effect of social media on children.
When we were asked to investigate Russia’s indoctrination and militarization of children living in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow since 2014, we had a general idea of the Kremlin’s occupation policies. Two of us grew up in what was then Soviet-occupied Latvia and
Two families reveal the human toll of India's medical entrance examination paper leak.
Greenland's labour shortages have created an unlikely migration corridor from Southeast Asia. In part two of this series, CNA looks at how Filipinos and Thais have become the island's largest communities.
China views Taiwan as its territory and has never ruled out the use of force to “reunify” with it.
With more Singaporeans expected to spend in JB after the RTS opens, old neighbourhoods become the city's new hot spots
The UK band says they are "surprised and disappointed" by their treatment over shouting "free Palestine" at a concert there.
PESHAWAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Aug 2 - At least 14 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, a rescue group and a regional police official said, as the country battles widening insurgencies.
The blast took place at a busy intersection near a police station in Swat during a civil society protest.
The blast took place at a busy intersection near a police station in Swat during a civil society protest.
She was sleeping when the animal dragged her away and injured her critically, leading to her death
The 56-year-old lost control and crashed into the rear of an MPV, which was also being driven by a Singaporean.
PM Anwar's PKR and key ally DAP head into crucial party assemblies in a fortnight.
Ultra-runner Sophie Woods runs 2,000km across eight countries in only 29 days to break the record for completing the Via Alpina - one of the world's toughest endurance challenges.
Opening the Indonesia Net-Zero Summit (INZS) 2026 at Balai Kartini in Jakarta on Saturday (Aug 1), Dino Patti Djalal, Chairman and Founder of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), said that climate change has become "the greatest blind spot in world affairs" today.
A total of 225 people on the vessel were rescued, said the regional Surabaya Search and Rescue Agency, which provided the latest figures in an afternoon update.
The vessel with at least 250 people on board caught fire off Madura island.
He was killed, along with nine team members, in a powerful avalanche in northern Pakistan.
"The ground rescue team has reached Nims Dai (Purja) at approximately 5,700m on Broad Peak - a mountain he loved, and a mountain that has now taken him from us," said the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
COLOMBO, Aug 2 - Sri Lanka tightened security across its prisons on Sunday after a riot left one person dead and six injured, an official said, as the nation struggles to manage its overcrowded jails.
The vessel was sailing from Surabaya to Makassar in South Sulawesi when the fire was reported.
The group, which included ten foreigners, were arrested for allegedly operating a drug trafficking network that injected narcotic-laced e-liquid into e-cigarette pods and later sold them to customers.
Inmates destroyed multiple buildings inside Mahara Prison, just outside the capital Colombo, police said.
This latest death was what officials and experts had worried about amid high temperatures.
Her death could be the first disaster-related fatality following the magnitude 7.1 quake on July 28.
McDonald’s Korea also said it was investigating the source of the reported particles.
Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional secured a majority of the seats in the Negri Sembilan state polls.