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Vast asteroid impact zone found in Australia Scientists have discovered a massive 200-kilometre (124-mile) impact zone in the Australian outback they believe was caused by an asteroid which smashed into Earth more than 300 million years ago.

20 February 2013

North Korea: A nuclear 7-Eleven? Experts differ about the scale and immediacy of the military threat posed by North Korea's latest nuclear test, but there is little disagreement about the alarming proliferation risks it presents.

20 February 2013

Sony pressured to change game with PS4 console Sony is expected to reveal its vision of the future of home entertainment on Wednesday by providing a glimpse at a new-generation PlayStation console that streams games, films, music and more.

20 February 2013

S. Korea flexes muscles with naval exercise South Korea staged a naval exercise involving US surveillance aircraft on Tuesday, flexing its military muscles at a time of high tensions on the Korean Peninsula following the North's third nuclear test.

20 February 2013

Childhood TV addicts more likely to commit crime: study Children who watch excessive amounts of television are more likely to have criminal convictions and show aggressive personality traits as adults.

19 February 2013

Samsung launches new premium 'smart' TVs South Korea's Samsung Electronics Tuesday launched a range of giant Internet-enabled televisions as part of a strategy to cement its lead in slowing global markets by focusing on premium models.

19 February 2013

Murakami's new book out in April: publisher Author Haruki Murakami's new novel will hit book stores in April, three years after the final instalment of "1Q84".

19 February 2013

Chess: Best female chess-players to come to Astana Kazakhstan was chosen to host the Women's World Team Championship 2013 in September 2012 at the World Chess Federation (FIDE) General Assembly.

19 February 2013

Forgotten work by Japan Nobel laureate uncovered A previously unknown short story by Japan's first Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, best-known for the novel "Snow Country".

19 February 2013

Japan, Kazakhstan agree resources investment deal Japan and Kazakhstan have agreed rules on foreign investment, as Tokyo looks to shore up minerals and energy to feed its resource-hungry industry.

19 February 2013

LG unveils new full-HD smartphone LG Electronics unveiled Monday the latest version of its flagship smartphone, boasting a higher resolution screen aimed at gaining a technical edge over bigger rivals like Samsung.

19 February 2013

Kerry, Lavrov talk, finally, on Syria, NKorea: US US Secretary of State John Kerry finally talked Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who had been unavailable for days after the North Korean nuclear test.

18 February 2013

Israel PM: exposing intelligence harms security Exposure of intelligence activities can "badly damage" state security, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday in his first remarks on the arrest and death of a jailed Australian-Israeli with Mossad links.

18 February 2013

British world cycle couple dead in Thai crash: police A British couple who were 18 months into a trip around the world by bicycle have been killed in a road accident in Thailand.

18 February 2013

Crisis-hit arms market shrinks, first time since 1994: SIPRI For the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers excluding China declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts.

18 February 2013

Asteroid whizzes safely past Earth A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet (45-meters) wide, whizzed safely past Earth on Friday, the same day a much smaller, previously undetected meteor hit Russia.

17 February 2013

Mystery gold gifts for tsunami-wracked Japan port A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami has received anonymous gifts of gold worth more than $250,000 in a phenomenon dubbed a "goodwill gold rush" ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster.

17 February 2013

Anti-North Korea leaflets launched on Kim's birthday North Korean defectors in the South launched 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the tense inter-Korean border on Saturday, the birth anniversary of the North's late leader Kim Jong-Il.

17 February 2013

Philippines hopes law will avert launder blacklisting The Philippines hopes to avoid being put on a blacklist of money-laundering havens after President Benigno Aquino signed a new law boosting safeguards against such crimes.

16 February 2013

China holiday retail sales jump 15%: government China on Saturday said retail sales jumped nearly 15 percent on-year during the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, as consumers splurged on jewellery, clothes and food.

16 February 2013

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