BEIJING, CHINA: The US Coast Guard suspended its Pacific Ocean search for star Chinese sailor Guo Chuan, it said, after rescuers boarded his drifting...
ISLAMABAD: The authorities have suspended a helicopter search Sunday for two American climbers who went missing six days ago while trying to summit a mountain in the country's far north.
PESHAWAR: Authorities on Saturday ended the search for 23 people buried by a landslide in the north, after last week's heavy rains that authorities said killed 117 people.
PESHAWAR: Rescuers were struggling Wednesday to reach 23 people buried by a landslide in the north after heavy rains on the weekend that authorities said have killed at least 92.
BANGALORE: A male leopard which injured five people in southern India earlier this month has escaped from a zoo, sparking a frantic search for the big cat, wildlife officials said Monday.
MAIMANA, Afghanistan: The Afghan Taliban said Wednesday they were searching for a man who cut off his wife's nose, condemning the attack as "un-Islamic", after online images of the young woman sparked widespread outrage.
JAKARTA: Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in raids across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of the Southeast Asian nation's capital.
BRUSSELS: Belgian federal prosecutors appealed to the public on Friday in the search for two men who traveled with a key suspect to Hungary in September and who they believe may have links to the Paris attacks.
NEW YORK: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled a new Galaxy Note phablet and a larger version of its curved-screen S6 edge smartphone on Thursday, marking a fresh bid by the South Korean company to revive momentum in its handset business.
KATHMANDU: Powerful aftershocks rocked Nepal Sunday, panicking survivors of a quake that killed more than 2,200 and triggering fresh avalanches at Everest base camp, as rescuers dug through rubble in the devastated capital Kathmandu.
PARIS: Google's latest Internet revolution this week saw the web giant modify its search algorithm to favour mobile-friendly sites, in a bid to upstage Apple that US media branded a "mobilegeddon".
NEW YORK: Microsoft and Yahoo have updated their search partnership to allow more flexibility in searches and end Yahoo's exclusive sales force role with advertisers.
PARIS/SEYNE-LES-ALPES: A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, prosecutors said on Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Tuesday began tuning its mobile search application to better answer people's questions about common ailments from tennis elbow to the measles.
KUALA LUMPUR: Shares in AirAsia, Southeast Asia's biggest budget airline, lost almost eight percent on Monday in Kuala Lumpur after one of its jets disappeared with 162 people on board.