Brian Viloria defeated Julio Cesar Miranda on Saturday to win the WBO Flyweight Belt.

The ASEAN Foundation organised the First ASEAN Cancer Stakeholders Forum to address soaring cancer rates in the region, and to launch the second phase of a landmark study aimed at gathering data on the socio-economic burden of cancer in 10 ASEAN Member States.

A deadly series of explosions rocked the city Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 141 others.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother was killed on Tuesday in his home in the restive and Taliban-infested province of Kandahar.

At least a dozen people were hurt in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday after police used tear gas to turn back protesters.

People in South Sudan partied in the streets of the capital Juba as the newly independent African state became the world’s newest country on Saturday.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has made his first public appearance since an attack last month left him severely burned.

Rupert Murdoch is shutting down his U.K.-based tabloid News of the World following allegations that the newspaper hacked into the phones of relatives and families of soldiers killed in action and missing children, among others.

After two unsuccessful bids, the South Korean city of Pyeongchang finally clinched the hosting rights to the Winter Olympics after being declared winner for the 2018 edition.

A sister of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to become the new leader of the country’s government.