North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his New Year's Day address said on Monday that his country has completed its nuclear arsenal and he has the ignition button ready "always on" his desk. ....

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his New Year's Day address said on Monday that his country has completed its nuclear arsenal and he has the ignition button ready "always on" his desk. ....

A man held 23 of his relatives hostage in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city after they refused to lend him money following losses he suffered in gambling. ....

Three persons, including the gunman, have been killed in a shooting incident in Houston in the US state of Texas, police said. ....

An Indian-origin college student was shot dead during a robbery attempt at a gas station in the US on Thursday and his relative critically injured, media reports said. ....

At least 12 persons were reported dead in a fire that raged through a New York City apartment in the Bronx area, the US media reported. ....

At least 41 people were killed and over 80 injured here on Thursday in a suicide attack on a cultural centre of the Shia minority, which houses a madrasa, a mosque and an office of an Afghan news agency, authorities said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. ....

At least 40 people were killed and over 30 injured in Kabul on Thursday in a suicide attack inside an Islamic religious school situated in a building which also houses the offices of an Afghan news agency. ....

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has held former military dictator Pervez Musharraf personally responsible for the murder of his mother, Benazir Bhutto, as the country observed her 10th death anniversary on Wednesday. ....

The US on Tuesday issued sanctions on two citizens of North Korea over the alleged involvement in the country's ballistic missile programmes. ....