WASHINGTON, United States — US soldier Travis King has been freed by North Korea and is "happy" to be heading home on Wednesday, nearly three months after he ran across the border from the South, US officials said.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature has enshrined the country's status as a nuclear weapons power in the constitution, state media reported Thursday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan will unveil its first domestically built submarine on Thursday, with the massively outgunned island seeking to bolster its defenses against China.  

NEW DELHI, India — Army chiefs and senior officers from 30 countries including the United States met in India Tuesday to discuss threats facing the Asia-Pacific region, in the face of concern at an increasingly assertive China.

AL-HAMDANIYAH, Iraq — At least 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured when a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall in the northern Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah, state media and health officials said early Wednesday.