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US President Donald Trump raised North Koreas missile tests during talks on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Trump thanks Duterte for hospitality, avoids queries on Philippines...

Trump praised Duterte's hospitality, the organisation of the summit he was hosting and even the weather, but said...

13 Nov 2017 3:09 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds bilateral talks with US President Donald Trump in Manila, Philippines, on Monday. (Photo: PIB | Twitter)

Modi, Trump meet in Manila, discuss security, ways to boost bilateral...

Modi and Trump are understood to have also discussed the security scenario in the Indo-Pacific region.

13 Nov 2017 3:08 PM IST

The ASEAN leaders later began deliberations at the summit which is taking place under the shadow of Chinas growing military build-up in the resource-rich South China Sea.

Musical version of Ramayana at ASEAN opening to reflect...

A musical version of the Ramayana was one of key performances at the ceremony reflecting India's cultural linkages with...

13 Nov 2017 2:26 PM IST

Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck late Sunday. (Photo: AP)

328 dead, 2,504 injured as toll in Iran-Iraq border earthquake on the...

The worst-hit towns in Iran were Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah and Azgaleh, about 40 kilometres northwest.

13 Nov 2017 1:44 PM IST

In this Nov. 4, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslim Nabi Hussain, 13, poses for a portrait with the yellow plastic drum he used as a flotation device while crossing the Naf river in Shar Porir Dwip, south Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

Rohingya boy who can't swim floats from Myanmar to Bangladesh on oil...

In just a week, more than three dozen boys and young men used cooking oil drums like life rafts to swim across the mouth...

13 Nov 2017 1:15 PM IST

At Philippines research centre, Modi briefed on rice quality to combat food scarcity

At Philippines research centre, Modi briefed on rice quality to combat...

Scientists briefed the PM on flood-tolerant rice varieties which can provide 1-3 tonnes more yield per hectare.

13 Nov 2017 1:03 PM IST

US President Donald Trump raised North Koreas missile tests during talks on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump meets Japan, Australia leaders, discusses trade, N Korea...

Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said North Korea's recklessness' needed to be stopped.

13 Nov 2017 10:28 AM IST

62-year-old Krishna Devi Droch was hit as she crossed a junction in Handsworth. (Photo: WMPolice | Twitter)

UK hit-and-run case: Indian-origin woman killed while crossing...

Krishna Devi Droch was hit as she crossed a junction in Handsworth in London on Thursday. She was declared dead at the...

13 Nov 2017 9:11 AM IST

Saad Hariri stepped down from the Prime Ministers post in a televised broadcast from Riyadh. (Photo: AFP)

Resigned Lebanon PM Saad Hariri says he is free', will return to...

Hariri brushed aside rumours that he was under de facto house arrest in the kingdom and said he would land in Beirut 'in...

13 Nov 2017 8:42 AM IST

Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck late Sunday. (Photo: AP)

207 dead,1700 injured as 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Iran-Iraq...

The worst-hit towns in Iran were Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah and Azgaleh, about 40 kilometres northwest.

13 Nov 2017 8:09 AM IST

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and British PM Theresa May attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph, London. (Photo: AP)

Turmoil for May as 40 Tory MPs push leadership change

Demands grow for resignation of foreign secretary Boris Johnson over Tehran's jailing of UK-Iranian woman.

13 Nov 2017 6:42 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with US President Donald Trump before the pre-Asean summit gala dinner in Manila. (Photo: PTI)

India, US, Japan, Australia hold first 'Quad' meet; to work for open...

Modi is scheduled to have a bilateral one-on-one hour-long meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit on...

13 Nov 2017 12:58 AM IST