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Aussie rapper equals Beatles double atop US chart Australian rapper Iggy Azalea has scored a US chart double only previously achieved by the Beatles, with hits at number one and number two, Billboard magazine said.

30 May 2014

Japan police inspect body after Chinese academic disappears Japanese police were Thursday probing the death of a man believed to be a Chinese academic who told his wife he was in danger shortly before he disappeared.

29 May 2014

Australia rules out swathe of ocean as MH370 crash zone Australia on Thursday ruled out a large swathe of Indian Ocean as Flight MH370's final resting place after a lengthy underwater hunt, as a US Navy official queried whether the missing plane ever went there.

29 May 2014

Oil tanker listing off Japan after huge explosion A 998-tonne oil tanker was listing off the Japanese coast Thursday after a large explosion and subsequent fire that sent towering columns of acrid smoke into the sky.

29 May 2014

Kazakhstan may become Chinese raw materials appendage: expert Tengrinews has interviewed experts about benefits and downsides of trade expansion between Kazakhstan and China, in which one expert maintained the possibility of the former becoming a raw materials appendage of the latter.

29 May 2014

Starbucks comes under 7-Eleven control in Australia The owners of the 7-Eleven chain in Australia have taken control of coffee giant Starbucks' struggling local operations in a bid to turn around its fortunes, the company said.

29 May 2014

Release of "The Evil Within" video game delayed Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks on Tuesday delayed release of eagerly awaited horror action title "The Evil Within" to October.

29 May 2014

Chinese elderly commit suicide to avoid coffin ban Six elderly people in China are said to have committed suicide to ensure they died before new regulations banning coffin burials come into force, a newspaper reported.

28 May 2014

Australian paper shows Kate's bare bottom One of Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers on Wednesday published a picture showing the bare bottom of Prince William's wife Kate, refusing to follow a "ridiculous" ban imposed by the British media.

28 May 2014

S. Korea hospice fire kills 21, patient detained A fire swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients early Wednesday, killing 21 people in what police said appeared to be an act of arson by an 81-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer.

28 May 2014

Australian arrested in Indonesia for drug possession An Australian man faces up to 20 years in an Indonesian prison after being arrested with a stash of drugs in his possession, police said.

28 May 2014

Death toll from India train crash hits 23: officials The death toll from a train crash in northern India rose to 23 after more bodies were recovered from inside mangled passenger carriages, officials said.

28 May 2014

Rare Australian conjoined twins die Australian conjoined twins Hope and Faith, who shared a body and skull but had separate brains and identical faces, have died almost three weeks after they were born in Sydney, medical officials said.

27 May 2014

China police seize 1.8 tonnes of bomb material in Xinjiang: govt Police in China's restive Xinjiang seized 1.8 tonnes of bombmaking material and detained five people, authorities said Tuesday, following a string of deadly attacks blamed on militants from the Muslim Uighur homeland.

27 May 2014

Chinese ship sinks Vietnam fishing boat: Vietnam official A Chinese ship rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat amid a tense territorial confrontation in the South China Sea over Beijing's deployment of an oil rig, a Vietnamese official said.

27 May 2014

Sony to sell PlayStation in China through new ventures Sony will bring its PlayStation consoles to China through two joint ventures, its Chinese partner said Monday, as the Japanese gaming giant seeks to tap a newly opened market.

27 May 2014

Football: Singapore delays Malaysia game over stadium Singapore has postponed a highly anticipated football match against arch-rivals Malaysia over concerns that its state-of-the-art new sports complex is not ready to host the fixture.

27 May 2014

Reward for S. Korea ferry owner upped to $500,000 Under-pressure South Korean prosecutors on Monday upped to $500,000 a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive businessman in connection with last month's ferry disaster.

26 May 2014

Japan woman's body sent by mail marked 'doll' Murder detectives were Monday investigating the case of a young nurse whose corpse was sent by parcel post across Japan in a box that claimed to contain a doll.

26 May 2014

Seven killed in S. Korea bus terminal fire At least seven people were killed and two dozen injured in a fire at a bus terminal near Seoul on Monday, emergency officials said.

26 May 2014

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