Asia Pacific
India 223-3 after Australia declares on 517-7 in 1st test
India\'s stand-in captain Virat Kohli helped the tourists to 223-3 at tea Thursday on the third day of the first test against ...Australian Senate inquiry finds government responsible for deadly asylum-seeker riots
The Australian government failed to protect asylum seekers in its custody during a deadly riot at an immigration detention center earlier this ...Hong Kong protesters given Thursday deadline to clear sites
Hong Kong\'s High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to ...Philippine capital braces for storm, as Hagupit leaves 27 dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened to a tropical storm as it churned close to the Philippine capital on Monday, after killing 27 people on ...Indonesian maid says tortured with vacuum cleaner tube in Hong Kong abuse case
An Indonesian domestic helper told a Hong Kong court on Monday that she had been tortured by her employer, with a vacuum ...Philippine typhoon weakens to a storm; 3 dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a storm Monday after it left at least three people dead and sent more than a million others ...Typhoon tears down homes in disaster-weary Philippines
Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and dumped fierce rains across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least two people while creating ...Typhoon Hagupit triggers massive evacuation in Philippines
More than half a million people in the Philippines have fled from a powerful typhoon in one of the world\'s biggest peacetime ...Swiss hostage escapes from Filipino extremists
A Swiss hostage escaped Saturday from Abu Sayyaf extremists after hacking one militant commander and getting shot as he dashed to freedom, ...China arrests ex-security chief for corruption, leaking secrets
Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and expelled him from the ruling Communist Party, accusing him of crimes ...