SEOUL: The impeachment trial of South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye got under way Thursday, with her lawyers arguing there is no evidence to back the corruption allegations that threaten to force her from office, reports AFP. Parliament voted to impeach Park last month over an influence-peddling…

The police commissioner of the southern Indian city of Bangalore has said there is no evidence to prove allegations of mass molestation took place on New Year’s Eve in the centre of the city, reports BBC. Praveen Sood told the BBC that police officers had reviewed footage from almost 70 CCTV cameras.…

LONDON: People living near major roads have a higher chance of developing dementia, according to a large-scale study published in British medical journal The Lancet on Thursday, reports AFP. The research looked at six million adults living in Ontario, Canada between 2001 and 2012, and found that those…

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Jovenel Moise, a Haitian banana exporter who has never held political office, has survived the country’s long-running electoral nightmare to become its next president, reports AFP. Moise’s victory in the November 20 election, made official Tuesday by the Provisional Electoral…

Malaysia: Thousands of people remained stranded in relief centres Thursday as northeast Malaysia struggled to recover from severe flooding and residents…

KABACAN: Philippine authorities said Thursday they had captured or killed dozens of men who escaped in the nation’s biggest jailbreak but more than 110 remained on the run in vast farmlands and isolated villages of the nation’s strife-torn south, reports AFP. Suspected Muslim guerrillas…

TEHRAN: Iran has hit back at "unconstructive" Turkish allegations that Tehran's allies were violating a fragile ceasefire in Syria, accusing rebels of breaking the truce, reports AFP. "The current ceasefire in Syria has been violated repeatedly by the anti-government armed opposition…