PARIS: It is official; sausage and other processed meat can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers - and red meat may be cancer-causing, too. While doctors have long warned against…

TOKYO: The United Nations special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography yesterday called on Japan to ban cartoons featuring "extreme" sexualised…

New Delhi: A mute and deaf Indian woman, who strayed into Pakistan more than a decade ago, returned to India yesterday to reunite with the people she believes are her family. The woman, known as…

Beijing: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will set up a network of collection points to receive Lego block donations, he said yesterday, after he set off a social media storm by accusing the Danish…

SEOUL: North and South Korean families divided since the Korean War said a tearful final farewell yesterday, wrapping up a rare reunion that was clouded at the last by a maritime border spat.

Dhaka: Bangladesh made its first arrests over an Italian aid worker's murder as authorities insisted yesterday the killing was a plot by the government's opponents to trigger anarchy and not the…