NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, tracks Santa's Christmas Eve flight around the world each year. Follow a ...

FOR SEVEN decades Tokyo was considered the world’s most populous city. That was 15 years too long, according to data released last month by the UN. Until recently the organisation’s statisticians ...

Nearly all international internet traffic voyages along a handful of submarine fibre-optic cable highways. They make ...

A record-breaking number of travellers have been flocking to Japan, with the country desperate to disperse tourism by urging ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

KYRGYZSTAN USED to be an exception in Central Asia: the sole democracy in a region run by strongmen, albeit a flawed one. That is rapidly ceasing to be the case. It regressed a bit closer to the mean ...

The vote in Myanmar, widely seen as a sham, is a bid for legitimacy by the military government. It is also a way for Beijing ...

Death toll rises to 604 in Indonesia, 176 in Thailand Recovery underway as weather conditions improve Homes flattened in Indonesia after landslides and floods Thai PM sets target of 7 days for ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and Southeast Asia. Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people ...

Padang, Indonesia — The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors.

China and India both opened up their economies decades ago, but their prosperity is a study in contrast today. Beneath ...

As the global artificial intelligence race heats up, the technology could deepen existing inequalities between countries if left unmanaged, according to a new report released by the United Nations’ ...