A Moscow court on Thursday convicted dead Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion, provoking outrage over the posthumous prosecution of a man whose death in pre-trial detention led to a major diplomatic row with Washington.

At least 30 people were killed and over 100 went missing in China when rain-triggered natural disasters wreaked havoc across the country since Sunday, even as authorities today issued a national early disaster warning for the arrival of Typhoon Soulik.

About 30 to 40 people were buried today in a rain-triggered landslide in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, local officials said.

China’s “coercive” behaviour in waters around islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan are dangerous and could trigger an incident, Tokyo said in a new defence paper today.

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s northwestern province of Aceh today, causing buildings to collapse and injuring at least 50 people.

Eight soldiers were killed by roadside bomb in the restive Thai south early this morning, an army spokesman said.

Pakistan's Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party has demanded fresh polls in the entire Karachi constituency, rejecting the Election Commission's decision to conduct re-polling only at 43 stations of the National Assembly (NA) seat.

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s judicial remand over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007 was extended by a fortnight today by an anti-terrorism court.

China and India should “examine” the recent border stand off in Depsang Valley in Ladakh and be able to resolve such incidents “much quicker” in the future, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid said today.