Papua New Guinea will take a historic step onto the global defence stage as the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) joins ...

The body of Pope Francis was moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public mourning for an ...

The public viewing is largely for ordinary Catholics to grieve the 88-year-old pope, who died Monday after suffering a stroke ...

6 November 1886. As the sky above Sacramento filled with starry diamonds… a shape suddenly blotted it. Jamie Heiman had the ...

Members of the 1.4 billion-member global Catholic community expressed grief on Monday at the death of Pope Francis aged 88, ...

Asian leaders paid tribute to Pope Francis, who championed the weak, the marginalised and the poor. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korean and U.S. fighters fly in formation over an air base in the southwestern city of Gwangju on April 18, 2025, ...

An order by Malaysia’s education ministry requiring pupils to wear a patch of the country’s flag stitched on their uniforms has been questioned by some as unnecessary, with parents and ...

More Koreans than ever are living alone — and choosing to stay that way. As this number climbs, so too does the number of ...

A former North Korean commando who took part in a failed 1968 mission to assassinate the then South Korean president has died at the age of 82. Kim Shin-jo, the only North Korean to be captured ...

For decades, the idea that the U.S. would risk war against North Korea to defend South Korea was a given in international politics. But in recent years, Seoul has had reasons to think this is ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee ...