A gas canister used to fuel a minivan exploded on a hot spring day in the Pakistani city of Gujrat on Saturday, police said.
A personal envoy to North Korea's leader indicated Kim Jung Un was open to restarting nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state-run media reported Friday.
At least seven people were killed when a building was attacked in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday.
Pakistan on Friday welcomed President Barack Obama's stance that "force alone cannot make us safer" in battling terrorism.
A suicide blast in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday killed two people and the bomber, authorities said.
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck the Russian Far East on Friday, the U.S. Geologicial Survey reported.
The parents of American Shane Todd, found hanging in his Singapore apartment last June, tell CNN they may exhume their son's body to conduct an autopsy in the United States.
An 80-year-old Japanese man on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mt. Everest, officials said.
Ai Weiwei is at it again. This time, the controversial Chinese artist-activist has taken his first venture into music, releasing a heavy metal single and music video inspired by his harrowing detention by the government two years ago.
Gunmen shot dead five people, including four prostitutes, in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province
A 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment landed on top of her, police said.
Bangladesh building collapse: An end to recovery efforts, a promise of a new start, as final death toll stands at 1,127.
When American pop artist Andy Warhol visited Beijing in 1982 and was told there wasn't a McDonald's, he replied: "Oh, but they will."
The death toll from a tunnel collapse at an underground mine training facility in Indonesia last week has risen to 21, the mining company said Tuesday.
Pakistan's former cricket star turned politician Imran Khan is home from hospital after a fall two weeks ago.
Nineteen-year-old Hnin Ei Phyu is on her knees at home, whispering her prayers. It's a small sign of normality in a community where things have been anything but normal in recent months.
At 17, Sonali Mukherjee had everything going for her. She was a beautiful, intelligent and ambitious young woman, dedicated to excelling in her studies.
Seven police officers died in Afghanistan when a vehicle struck a roadside mine, a government official said.
It's the staple of almost every kung fu action film ever made: the hero is targeted for revenge after teaching the deadly and closely guarded secrets of the martial art to outsiders and, even worse, foreigners.
A suicide attack on a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday killed a top politician and at least 10 others, police said.
North Korea on Monday fired a projectile into the sea off its east coast, the sixth in three days, South Korea said.
The rat-a-tat of a hundred green sewing machines. The hypnotic hum of spools spinning brightly colored threads. The hiss of a thousand clothing irons.
At least 14 people are dead, 14 are unaccounted for and 10 have been rescued in Indonesia after a tunnel collapse last week at an underground mine training facility, the mining company said.
Pakistanis cast ballots in Karachi on Sunday, a day after the slaying of a well-known political leader who had accused rivals of vote rigging.
North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
A Pakistani lawmaker, who alleged widespread vote rigging in Karachi, was shot to death Saturday outside her home, sources close to the family told CNN.
North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
At least 9 people were killed in Afghanistan when two cars exploded, a government official said.
Blasts targeting two mosques in northwestern Pakistan on Friday have left 10 people dead and at least 20 more injured, a police official said.
May has been a bad month for ties between Taiwan and the Philippines, with Taiwan reacting angrily to a Philippine coast guard vessel's killing of a fisherman.
An Australian politician suffered gashes to one of his legs when a close encounter with a kangaroo during his morning jog turned violent.
Young women tell CNN how sex traffickers corrupted their lives, part of a two-year Freedom Project investigation.
As part of CNN's The Fighters documentary, reporters went undercover in Manila's red light district where they found young girls on offer in bar after bar.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao is using his star power to tackle human trafficking. As part of The Fighters he gave CNN exclusive access to his inner circle.
Activist Cecilia Oebanda-Flores has earned a global reputation fighting human trafficking. Now she's in trouble.
A suicide car bombing targeting a coalition convoy in the heart of Afghanistan's capital on Thursday killed at least 12 people, six Americans and six Afghans.
Holding a black noose over her head, Singaporean forensics expert Lim Chin-Chin explained Wednesday to a packed courtroom how re-enactments showed that American engineer Shane Todd would have been able to hang himself from a similar black strap attached to his bathroom door.
Two people died after a raised concrete walkway collapsed Thursday at a shoe factory warehouse in Cambodia, police said.
Authorities in the Philippines settled a dead heat between two candidates for mayor in a decidedly old-school way -- by flipping a coin.
A family road trip around Australia turned to tragedy for two children when their mother died swimming and their father is missing, feared dead.
Tropical Cyclone Mahasen lashed the coast of Bangladesh with heavy rain Thursday, bringing the risk of flooding and landslides to densely populated communities.
Chinese security forces staged a massive crackdown in a provincial capital city Thursday to prevent protests against the construction of a chemical plant.
Four months before the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, a woman fired a gun in China's National Art Gallery -- all in the name of art.
Residents of coastal areas in Bangladesh and Myanmar prepare for Tropical Cyclone Mahasen, a large storm that's rumbling toward them across the Bay of Bengal.
North Korea said Wednesday that the U.S. citizen it sentenced last month to 15 years of hard labor has begun his stay at a "special prison."
Three Chinese airlines received "false bomb threats" that caused disruption to five different domestic flights, state media reported.
Japanese officials have distanced themselves from comments made by a prominent nationalist politician that suggested women forced to become prostitutes to entertain Japanese troops during World War II were "necessary."
Three boats carrying as many as 150 people are believed to have capsized near the western coast of Myanmar, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
Three troops in southern Afghanistan died after a bombing, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Two bodies were found Tuesday at the scene of a tunnel collapse at an underground mine training facility in Indonesia, the mining company said.
The first time Yoon Hee was abandoned, she was an infant.
Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister whose government was overthrown by a coup more than a decade ago, appears to be back on top in Pakistan, election officials say
A Bangladeshi teen buried for 16 days under the rubble of a garment factory where she worked speaks for the first time about her harrowing struggle to survive.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologized Monday for a scandal involving a spokesman she fired last week over allegations of sexual misconduct in the U.S.
Three International Security Assistance Force service members were killed Monday when insurgents attacked their position, the NATO-led ISAF said.
Assailants terrorized residents of a city in Pakistan Monday with a deadly suicide bombing.
A transsexual woman has won on appeal the right to marry her boyfriend, a decision poised to rewrite Hong Kong's marriage law.
A coal mine explosion in China's southwestern Sichuan province killed 28 miners, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A day after her discovery alive amid the wreckage of a building that had entombed her since it collapsed here on April 24, Reshma Begum is recovering.
Rescuers pulled two more bodies from the wreckage of a collapsed building Sunday in Bangladesh, bringing the death toll to 1,119, state news agency reports.
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has dismissed her press spokesman after concluding that he was involved in an "unsavory incident" during a U.S. visit
Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister whose government was overthrown by a coup more than a decade ago, appears to be back on top in Pakistan, election officials say
Sporadic violence aimed at polling stations failed to deter Pakistanis voting in Saturday's landmark national and provincial elections.
Crews working through the rubble at the Bangladesh building collapse site found a survivor and rescued her.
Pakistanis headed to the polls Saturday for what could be a historic vote in a nation facing
The unflinching account from a defector revealed how he picked corn kernels out of cow manure to eat as he competed with his family for food at one of North Korea's notorious prison camps.
After scouring hundreds of miles of waters off Australia's coast, authorities on Friday called off a search for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.
When Pakistanis go to the polls on Saturday they will be electing key players battling to govern one of the world's most complicated countries.
I found out that the May SAT test had been canceled across the whole of South Korea just a couple of hours after teachers were told.
Nawaz Sharif, a stout 63-year-old, has already had a long and rocky career that includes two stints as prime minister during the 1990s
A son of a former Pakistani prime minister was kidnapped Thursday in a deadly raid two days before the son was to stand for provincial assembly elections, one of his brothers told CNN
Politics can be a blood-soaked affair in Pakistan, and this leadership struggle is no exception. Dozens have been killed in attacks in the weeks leading up to this Saturday's election.
North Korea for the first time publicly specified the "hostile acts" that landed Kenneth Bae a 15-year sentence at a labor camp.
More than two weeks after a factory collapsed in Bangladesh, trapping workers in a mangled concrete heap, the death toll has surpassed 900.
At least eight people died in a fire in a clothing factory in Bangladesh's capital late Wednesday, Bangladesh's national news agency BSS reported.
Human traffickers in the Philippines prey on the nation's poorest and most vulnerable people. They lure people from their homes with promises of jobs and money and the victim can end up working in Manila's sex bars or overseas in places as far afield as Syrian and Japan.
The Visayan Forum Foundation in the Philippines grew out of the determination of its founder, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda helping women and children working as domestic servants. It grew into an internationally recognized anti-trafficking organization. But now its future is in doubt.
Authorities launched a search Thursday after two passengers went missing overnight off Australia's eastern coast.
A man from India died in Pakistan early last week from a beating he took in jail there days before. The day after his passing, a Pakistani inmate received a beating in an Indian prison.
When Nusrat Begum walks in to our Islamabad office she arrives accompanied by her 17-year-old son and her brother.
The death toll in the Bangladesh building collapse two weeks ago now stands at 803, an army spokesman said.
A cold case involving the poisoning of a college sophomore in Beijing almost two decades ago has captured the imagination of Chinese communities around the world, landing a petition on the White House website and igniting an emotional debate on the pursuit of justice in China.
At least 35 passengers were killed and 22 others were injured Wednesday when a bus plunged into a river in a mountainous area of northern India, police said.
Eleven people were killed in Afghanistan Wednesday when an anti-Pakistan demonstration turned violent, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Kandahar said.
Famed politician and Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan suffered spinal fractures and a head injury after a dramatic fall on the campaign trail, officials said.
The head of Malaysia's police force has warned opposition supporters they face arrest if they attend a rally Wednesday evening organized by losing candidate Anwar Ibrahim.
If any American has the power of persuasion over North Korea's defiant young ruler, it might be eccentric ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman.
60 years after the end of the Korean War, Chinese veterans say they have been forgotten as few understand the sacrifices they made on the battlefield.
Violence hit Pakistan's volatile election campaign on Tuesday as this weekend's national polls approach.
Laura Sherburne left her hometown, Boston, on the day of bombings only to confront more tragedy in Bangladesh.
North Korea has withdrawn two mobile ballistic missiles from a launch site in the eastern part of the country, according to a U.S. official
The death toll from the disastrous building collapse in Bangladesh last month has risen above 700, authorities said Tuesday
The Chinese government had stern words for Israel at the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's five-day visit to the country.
Five people have been killed after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant cloud of ash and rocks early Tuesday.
North Korea issued a new threat of military action Tuesday if "even a single shell" from U.S. and South Korean naval exercises fell in its territorial waters.
Malaysia's opposition leader has urged his supporters to wear black at a rally to be held in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to protest Sunday's vote, which he claims "was marred with unprecedented election fraud."
U.S. authorities concluded that a video does show the civilian-operated cargo jet that crashed in Afghanistan last week, a U.S. government official said Monday.
A blast near a political rally killed 18 people and injured 56 Monday in Pakistan, a government official said.
Bangladeshi capital wears an eerie calm a day after Islamists battle police
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