MAGDEBURG, Germany - The death toll from a car-ramming at a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg rose to four on Saturday, media reports said, after a suspect on Friday ploughed into a large crowd of visitors.

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives passed funding to keep the US government operating until mid-March just hours before a midnight shutdown deadline, capping a tumultuous two days in which two earlier plans collapsed.

A rebel army in Myanmar says it has captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking the fall of the junta’s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks against a nationwide armed resistance movement.

A member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club has been sentenced to death and two others given life imprisonment for the gruesome murder of a German property broker whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Pattaya last year.

One man’s warning could ignite another man’s yearning for a general election, not that one is in the pipeline.

A rebel army in Myanmar says it has captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking the fall of the junta’s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks against a nationwide armed resistance movement.

A member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club has been sentenced to death and two others given life imprisonment for the gruesome murder of a German property broker whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Pattaya last year.

One man’s warning could ignite another man’s yearning for a general election, not that one is in the pipeline.

Kaprao Khao Boom in Bangkok’s Bang Bon district, good food meets a good cause. This eatery, open for eight years, feeds the hungry with healthy, hearty meals starting at just 20 baht, or even for free.

RECAP: Asian equities declined on Friday and the dollar traded near a two-year high as investors continued to fret about the likelihood of fewer US interest rate cuts in the coming year.