North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test.

The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to “extremely poor quality” construction materials, to the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed by Bangladesh's government concluded.

One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.

A 7-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his 10-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said Thursday.

Japan on Thursday accused a South Korean newspaper of “dishonorable” behavior for publishing an editorial suggesting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “divine punishment.”

When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of Western imperialism.

The Philippines vowed Thursday to fight China “to the last man standing,” as a Chinese warship patrolled around a remote reef occupied by a handful of Filipino marines in disputed waters.

A handful of marines living on a World War II-era ship that is grounded on a remote, tiny reef is the Philippines' last line of defense against China's efforts to control most of the South China Sea.

A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition, and police arrested three others, including two opposition politicians, on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent.

A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced a lawyer and three farm workers to death over the gruesome murder of a glamorous cosmetics tycoon and her three associates.