As aid workers and volunteers rushed to help, survivors told harrowing tales of death and destruction. […]

Officials said hopes of finding additional survivors were fading as they worked to bring aid to the injured in Paktika Province. […]

Aid has been streaming into the rugged regions hit by the quake on Wednesday. Hundreds were killed and many more are missing, with officials saying that they do not expect to find more survivors. […]

The United Nations and human rights advocates criticized the transfer from house arrest, and urged the regime to free her and all other political prisoners. […]

South Asia is used to downpours, and occasional floods, during monsoon season. But this year’s flooding has been extreme, especially in Bangladesh. […]

The girls and women of anime tend to experience the conflicting emotions of real life. That’s because the auteurs try to create “an everyday, real person.&rdquo […]

The arrival of a new government in Canberra has set the stage for ministerial talks and overtures for easing tensions. Plenty still divides the two nations. […]

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the historic flooding. Elsewhere, record-high temperatures are rupturing roads and driving energy consumption. […]

Afghans search for survivors and China faces twin extreme weather crises. […]

Mitoshi Matsumoto, who defied corporate edicts by closing for a few hours every night, was ordered by a judge to hand over his store near Osaka, Japan, and pay damages to the corporate giant. […]

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The quake — the deadliest in the country in two decades — was the latest in a string of tragedies to affect the country since the Taliban seized power from the U.S.-backed government last summer. […]

Families whose relatives have been abducted or imprisoned by North Korea are seeking to hold the country financially accountable despite the long odds of collecting money from the isolated nation. […]

Also, a pivotal showdown looms in Eastern Ukraine and China squeezes Taiwan’s economy. […]

Taiwan’s lucrative grouper industry is bracing for heavy losses after China’s recent ban on imports of the fish from the island. […]