The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...

North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia’s Far East for training and acclimatising at local military bases and is likely to be deployed for combat in the war in Ukraine, ...

There have been at least 159,022,000 reported infections and 1,442,000 reported deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in Asia and the Middle East so far. Of every 100 infections last reported ...