U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday his new policy of direct communication with Myanmar's ruling generals was built on the failure of U.S. sanctions to change the behavior of the country's leaders.

Rising sea levels caused by global warming could inundate up to 250,000 homes in Australia, according to a study released Saturday that warned airports, hospitals and power stations were at risk.

A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese, and injuring six others, police said.

Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday, ending a contentious four-day visit that deepened a diplomatic crisis between the neighbours.

Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.

Barack Obama insisted on Friday that the United States was a “Pacific” power and vowed to deepen its engagement in the region as he set foot in Asia for the first time as U.S. president.

A powerful suicide car bomb ripped through the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's top spy agency Friday, killing at least 10 people and leaving much of the fortified building in ruins.

Hillary mania gripped the Philippine capital of Manila as thousands of cheering and flag-waving Filipinos greeted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her two-day visit ending Friday.

North Korea warned Friday that it will aggressively defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash with rival South Korea took place this week, though it tempered its rhetoric by indicating it wants better relations with Seoul and Washington.

Cambodian police said Friday they had charged a Thai man with spying on fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, further inflaming a diplomatic crisis between the neighboring countries.