A Pakistani man with dual U.S. citizenship was questioned and released after being detained in a dangerous area of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani police said.
The U.S.-led coalition says its forces have killed five militants in central Afghanistan.
North Korea will resume the process of dismantling its nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced.
An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others, police said.
Four former Khmer Rouge rebels were sentenced up to 20 years in prison Tuesday for their involvement in the murder of a British mine-clearing expert 12 years ago.
Thai troops retreated from a disputed border on Tuesday, according to a Cambodian army official, after Cambodia's prime minister issued a noon ultimatum to Thailand.
Two Vietnamese journalists have gone on trial for alleged false information in their stories about one of the country's most high-profile corruption cases.
A remote-controlled bomb detonated Monday near the vehicle of a secular Pakistani political leader, who was injured along with four others, police said.
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is in stable condition and responding to treatment, officials at a Mumbai hospital said Sunday, a day after he was hospitalized with acute abdominal pain.
For thousands of years, Diwali celebrations have had a sweet embrace on India.
A Pakistani man with dual U.S. citizenship was questioned and released after being detained in a dangerous area of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani police said.
The U.S.-led coalition says its forces have killed five militants in central Afghanistan.
North Korea will resume the process of dismantling its nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced.
An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others, police said.
Four former Khmer Rouge rebels were sentenced up to 20 years in prison Tuesday for their involvement in the murder of a British mine-clearing expert 12 years ago.
Thai troops retreated from a disputed border on Tuesday, according to a Cambodian army official, after Cambodia's prime minister issued a noon ultimatum to Thailand.
Two Vietnamese journalists have gone on trial for alleged false information in their stories about one of the country's most high-profile corruption cases.
A remote-controlled bomb detonated Monday near the vehicle of a secular Pakistani political leader, who was injured along with four others, police said.
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is in stable condition and responding to treatment, officials at a Mumbai hospital said Sunday, a day after he was hospitalized with acute abdominal pain.
For thousands of years, Diwali celebrations have had a sweet embrace on India.
Pakistani tribesmen are raising armies to battle al Qaeda and Taliban militants close to the Afghan border -- a movement encouraged by the military and hailed as a sign its offensive there is succeeding.
Greenmuting has nothing to do with bio-engineering or mutation, but refers to the practice, usually by companies or corporations of not talking about environmental issues or efforts, or their lack of.
Opponents of the Philippine president filed a new impeachment complaint against her Monday over alleged corruption, vote-rigging and other crimes, but the government predicted the bid would fail like three previous attempts.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed four people and wounded two others in Pakistan's tumultuous North Waziristan region, Pakistani military sources said Sunday.
North Korea said Sunday it will immediately resume work to disable its nuclear plants after the United States removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
Six members of a Muslim family were burned alive Sunday in a fire at their house in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that his government will guarantee all deposits in the country's banks and financial institutions for the next three years.
Two separate battles that militants fought with Afghan and NATO troops in southern Afghanistan over the weekend left at least 100 insurgents dead, authorities said Sunday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed five tribesmen in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border, the latest in a series of attacks in a region where top al Qaeda leaders are believed to be living, two intelligence officials said.
A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia's North Caucasus Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of hospitals, schools and other buildings, emergency officials said.
The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded Saturday by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first intra-Kashmir train Saturday, even as police and paramilitary enforced an undeclared curfew in parts of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Thousands of people greeted the founder of Aceh's separatist rebel movement Saturday upon his return to the Indonesian province following three decades in exile and a civil war that left thousands dead.
Afghan and coalition forces killed nine militants, including al Qaeda and Taliban commanders, in two separate operations Friday, the U.S.-led coalition said Saturday.
North Korean television broadcast a series of photos Saturday that it said showed North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, visiting a military facility.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a new nuclear trade deal Friday with the United States which she said will unlock a vast potential partnership.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States would be prepared to reconcile with the Taliban if the Afghan government pursued talks to end the seven-year conflict in that country.
A suicide bomber targeted a tribal gathering in north-west Pakistan Friday evening, Pakistani authorities have said, killing 18 people and injuring more than 45.
The Dalai Lama underwent successful laproscopic surgery to remove a gallstone Friday, according to his spokesman.
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
From organic toothpaste to "clean" petrol, it seems as though all the products in our lives are busily championing their eco-friendly credential.
Smoke was detected Friday at a Japanese nuclear power complex that suffered a major accident a decade ago, but the operator said there was no release of radioactivity.
Leaders of an anti-government group that have orchestrated months of protests in Thailand have turned themselves into police Friday, authorities said.
A South Korean appeals court upheld the guilty verdict against the former chairman of the Samsung Group, who was sentenced during the summer on a tax evasion conviction, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
North Korea moved closer to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate its atomic bomb-producing facility and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.
North Korea moved closer to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate its atomic bomb-producing facility and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.
Japan's Nikkei fell more than 10 percent in early trading Friday, as Asia and Pacific stocks responded to the U.S. stock market's lowest closing in five years.
A Pakistani suicide bomber convinced security-gate guards at Islamabad police headquarters that he was delivering candy before detonating his explosives Thursday, killing himself and injuring 17 others, a police official told CNN.
A man convinced security guards Thursday that he was delivering a box of sweets to Islamabad police headquarters before setting off a suicide blast, a police official told CNN.
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs says over 70 percent of Japanese inns and hotels that didn't have foreign guests last year don't want any in the future either.
A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets:
A team of German forensic experts has arrived in Nepal to identify the badly charred bodies of tourists who were among the dead in a plane crash near Mount Everest.
A Sri Lankan government minister narrowly escaped injury Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives, police said.
Asian and Pacific markets were relatively stable Thursday -- a day after major indices declined sharply on fears of the world financial crisis.
The leaders of Thailand's anti-government protesters said Thursday they will surrender to police after a court dropped treason charges against them, but vowed to continue their sit-in at the prime minister's office after posting bail.
European markets made early gains Thursday morning as traders sought to bounce back following heavy losses a day earlier and European central banks offered $90 billion to the banking sector in a fresh attempt to bolster economic confidence.
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who was seeking a seventh five-year term, appeared headed for a runoff in the country's first ever multiparty elections, according to preliminary results.
Residents in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives went to the polls Wednesday to cast ballots in the first multi-party elections in the country's history -- and to decide the fate of Asia's longest-serving leader.
The Australian airline Qantas plans to offer refunds and other compensation to passengers who were on a jet that suddenly changed altitude this week, injuring 74 people, the airline said Thursday.
More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said Wednesday, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments.
Asian markets have bounced back modestly after major central banks cut interest rates to shore up the global economy, although investors remained anxious about fallout from the deepening credit crisis.
A U.S. military probe has found that an airstrike in western Afghanistan killed at least 33 civilians last month -- in sharp contrast to the five to seven civilian deaths initially reported.
A small plane carrying tourists from Germany and Australia hit a fence and caught fire in Nepal's Everest region Wednesday morning, killing 18 of 19 people on board, officials said.
Instruments aboard a Qantas airliner warned of a glitch in its stabilization system when it suddenly rose and plunged, tossing unbelted passengers to the ceiling and injuring more than 70 people, Australian investigators said Wednesday.
A South Korean official says that the North is believed to be seeking to develop a small-sized, lightweight nuclear warhead that can be carried by its missiles.
Britain unveiled a $87.4 billion rescue package for its battered banking system Wednesday as global stocks prices continued to crumble under the weight of the unrelenting financial crisis.
Soldiers stood guard on street corners Wednesday as an uneasy calm returned to Bangkok a day after fierce clashes between anti-government protesters and police left at least two killed and more than 400 injured.
Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.
Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.
Two people died Tuesday when Thai police clashed with thousands of anti-government protesters who barricaded Parliament and prevented lawmakers from leaving.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been cleared to resume international travel after a medical checkup showed he has recovered from a recent abdominal ailment, his spokesman said.
An Australian airliner suddenly changed altitude Tuesday, injuring about 40 people, including some who suffered fractures and cuts, officials said.
A pair of earthquakes that struck Tibet on Monday killed nine people -- fewer than authorities originally reported, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs reported Tuesday.
Nine people were killed in the pair of earthquakes that struck Tibet, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs reported on Tuesday, lowering the toll of 30 that had initially been reported.
The death toll has risen to 47 in clashes between tribal people and Muslims in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, authorities said Tuesday.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim slammed a government bid to move his sodomy trial from a lower court to the High Court, saying Tuesday that he fears he will end up facing a biased judge.
Japan's Nikkei rebounded above 10,000 before midday on Tuesday, paring its losses after dropping more than 5 percent in early trading.
Police fired tear gas Tuesday at several thousand demonstrators attempting to block access by lawmakers to Parliament, heating up a political crisis that has gripped the country for six weeks.
Two earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet and surrounding areas, killing at least nine people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said Tuesday. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people buried in the rubble.
Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the U.S. in reaction to last week's announcement that the U.S. is selling weapons to Taiwan, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.
An attack by a suicide bomber in north-central Sri Lanka killed at least 27 people Monday, including a prominent politician and his wife, police said. Another 60 people were wounded.
Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict -- and are severing their ties with al Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have told CNN.
An American woman lost an appeal Monday of her conviction in a Hong Kong court for the beating death of her husband in a sensational case widely known as the "milkshake murder" trial.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southern Kyrgyzstan late Sunday night killing an estimated 70 people and destroying more than 120 buildings, the government reported Monday.
A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said.
Indian security forces sealed off Srinagar's center Monday to thwart a rally by separatists and tighten a round-the-clock curfew now in its second day in the violence-torn Himalayan region.
The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday.
A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 60 people, emergency officials said Monday.
Authorities in India's remote northeastern state of Assam have deployed the Army to quell fighting between tribal people and Muslims that has left 34 dead and displaced more than 10,000.
Asian and European stock markets pushed lower Monday after having the weekend to digest Friday's passage of a $700 billion bank bailout plan in the United States.
Rockets landed near a family home of a top politician in Pakistan's northwest, while elsewhere in the volatile region Taliban anger over a suspected U.S. missile strike indicated a top militant may have been killed, officials said.
In a groundbreaking meeting, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group, according to a source familiar with the talks.
Political and economic solutions are needed alongside military might to help end the fighting in Afghanistan, the country's minister of defense said.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook central Afghanistan early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Hong Kong authorities Sunday announced that two recalled candy products made by British confectioner Cadbury had high levels of melamine.
Indian authorities in Kashmir placed the Himalayan region in an around-the-clock indefinite curfew early Sunday to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally.
Authorities in India's remote northeastern state of Assam have called in the army to quell fighting between tribal people and Muslims which has left 14 dead and displaced more than 10,000.
A Maoist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu leader, whose death sparked a wave of Hindu-Christian riots in southern India.
Thai police arrested a key opposition leader Sunday as part of its crackdown on the anti-government movement that want leaders of the ruling People Power Party purged from the Cabinet.
American al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn appeared in a video posted on the Internet on Saturday, focusing on Pakistan, with references to the U.S. economic meltdown and fighting in Kashmir.
North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, made a rare public appearance at a Pyongyang soccer match, the country's state news agency reported on Saturday.
The Cambodian government accused Thailand on Saturday of trying to provoke "full-scale armed hostilities" between the two neighbors after a cross-border gunfight.
South Korea's food watchdog has ordered four more Chinese-made food products to be destroyed after they were found to contain the industrial chemical melamine.
In a move bound to anger China, the United States intends to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan, the State Department said Friday.
A suspected missile strike killed at least 20 people Friday in the Pakistani village of Lund Mohammad Khel, a military source said.
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