Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian

A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan's central Punjab province, police said yesterday,

Floods triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains have claimed more than 50 lives in eastern India this week, the country's home minister and reports said yesterday, with millions of people affected by surging waters.

An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.

Myanmar's most heavily armed ethnic group yesterday held "positive" talks with the country's de facto leader Aung San

Indonesia executed four convicted drug traffickers, including three Nigerians, early yesterday as it pushed ahead with

China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China's Defence Ministry said

A former prime minister whose party supported Thailand's last coup lambasted the junta's new constitution yesterday

Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence

At least 58 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal, the government said

Scientists from India, the United States and Japan have struck upon a large natural gas deposit in the Bay of Bengal, the

Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people, with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes, officials say.

India yesterday stepped up a major search operation for an air force plane that disappeared over the Bay of Bengal

Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced thousands from their homes, state media reported

An Indian charity worker kidnapped from Kabul has been rescued, officials said yesterday, more than a month after she

The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be suspended if the aircraft is not found in an area now being

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted an invite from Barack Obama to visit the United States, her

Pakistan's parliament yesterday debated bills aimed at tackling so-called honour killings and amending its rape law,

Thai authorities have ordered an anti-junta television channel to stop broadcasting as the kingdom's military rulers

Muslims make up just over two percent of Myanmar's population, government census figures showed yesterday, undercutting