Asia Pacific
North Korea executes defense chief with an anti-aircraft gun
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had his defence minister executed with anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during a formal military ...Hundreds rescued off Indonesian waters
Nearly 600 migrants thought to be Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis were rescued from at least two wooden boats stranded off the coast ...Thousands stranded as strong typhoon nears Philippines
Thousands of passengers were stranded in seaports and some domestic flights were canceled as Typhoon Noul strengthened further before its expected landfall ...North Korea says successfully test-fired underwater ballistic missile
North Korea said on Saturday it has successfully conducted an underwater test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, which, if true, would indicate ...Pakistan helicopter crashes killing Norwegian, Philippine ambassadors
A Pakistan military helicopter carrying diplomats to the launch of projects in northern Pakistan crashed on Friday killing six people, including the ...Italy says 10 migrants die, 4,500 rescued in ongoing mission
Nearly 4,500 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya over the weekend and 10 bodies were recovered, Italy\'s coast ...Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes off Papua New Guinea
An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck off Papua New Guinea on Friday, 128 km south-south-west of Rabaul, at a depth of 61 ...Indonesia executes eight drug traffickers, despite worldwide appeals for clemency
Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly after midnight on Wednesday, media said, but a ...Captain of doomed South Korea ferry jailed for life for homicide by appeals court
The South Korean ferry captain responsible for last year\'s disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly school children, was given an ...Nine await execution in Indonesia, as foreign hopes for reprieve fade
Nine drug traffickers met their families for what could be the final time at an Indonesian maximum security prison on Tuesday, after ...