A massive manhunt is underway after convicted murderer Jacob Morley, 28, escaped from a Tennessee prison by breaching a perimeter fence late on Sunday night.

Former US Army soldier Zarrius Hildabrand, 24, has been sentenced to 59 years in prison for shooting dead his 21-year-old wife, Saria, and dumping her body in a storm drain.

Los Angeles placed in dead last, followed by New York City, then Detroit. Each city stood out for metrics in which they performed particularly poorly.

An abandoned high street Costa Coffee has gone on the market after the chain’s closure was branded “a sign of the times”.

A schoolboy was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash involving an e-bike and a police car.

US-based Delta Air Lines has expressed confidence that the quality of its service will help it win a share of Hong Kong’s fiercely competitive aviation market, saying demand for its recently relaunched route to Los Angeles has exceeded expectations, driven by corporate bookings. Jeff Moomaw, the airline’s vice-president for Asia-Pacific, said on Tuesday that demand for premium travel was helping drive its growth in the region. “Hong Kong is [a] highly competitive market with premium carriers,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended condolences to the family of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.

In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) introduced a set of rules governing officials' conduct. The document was just over 600 Chinese characters long, and its provisions might have sounded trivial: no floral arrangements at meetings, no lavish dishes at official receptions, no luxury hotels on business trips, and no road closures or traffic restrictions to clear the way for officials.

China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun will skip this week’s meeting of Southeast Asian defence chiefs and their dialogue partners in Cebu, with Beijing instead sending its defence attache in the Philippines. Dong has attended the Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) for the past two years. This year’s ADMM and ADMM-Plus, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, coincide with a major Communist Party meeting known as the fifth plenum, which is running in Beijing from Monday to...

A Hong Kong beautician has been sentenced to four years in jail for tricking two friends into forced labour and confinement in Myanmar’s notorious “KK Park” scam farm, with a judge slamming her actions as “vicious and inhumane”. District Court Judge Adriana Noelle Tse Ching on Tuesday said the 33-year-old defendant, Poon Sum-yi, had premeditated the fraudulent scheme to lure the two victims into travelling to Thailand, before selling them to the Chinese-run scam compound in neighbouring Myanmar...