Thousands of protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir have poured into the streets to protest the continuous killing of civilians.

Australia's independent MPs have held their first meeting to discuss which party they should throw their weight behind after the country's inconclusive weekend elections.

The South Korean Defense Ministry has threatened to retaliate immediately, should the North Korean military fire across the disputed sea border.

A powerful bomb blast has destroyed a police bus in the Afghan capital killing more than 35 people as Taliban claimed responsibility.

Several Australian commandoes may be charged with the death of five children during a raid in Afghanistan's southern province of Oruzgan, media reports say.

The United Nations has warned that more than 3.5 million survivors of Pakistan's massive floods do not have access to clean drinking water.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is reportedly visiting China for the second time this year, according to a South Korean presidential source.

The Lower House of Indian parliament has approved a long-delayed draft legislation that will enable foreign nuclear groups to build reactors in the South Asian country.

Chinese officials are appalled and angered by the Philippines' police handling of a hostage crisis, shown live on television on Tuesday.

South Korea's defense ministry says it has detected a large number of North Korean soldiers and arms stationed near the capital Pyongyang.

The US has slapped new restrictions on high-technology exports to China fearing a military buildup that might jeopardize its interests.

A senior Afghan official urges the United States sanction neighboring Pakistan over what he described as Islamabad's support for terrorism.

About half a million flood-hit people of Pakistan have been ordered to evacuate their towns amid fears of extra flooding in the devastated country.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir after a teenager died of injuries he had suffered during an earlier clash with Indian forces.

A Chinese plane operated by the local Henan Airlines with over 90 passengers aboard has crashed in northeastern China, killing 43 people.

Hong Kong has expressed disappointment with the mismanagement of the Philippines government over the death of eight of its nationals in a hostage drama in Manila.

North Korea has developed a special stealth paint to camouflage its warships, tanks and fighter planes from foreign reconnaissance satellites and aircraft.

A British daily has reported the country's troops in Afghanistan are suffering shortages of equipment, a charge denied by defense ministry.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said the US-led forces in his country have not made any progress in combating terrorism during the nine-year occupation.

Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has criticized the US for indiscriminate killings in the so-called war on terror in the country.

Seven tourists, all from Hong Kong, have been killed in a hostage-taking incident in the Philippines, in which the gunman was also killed.

Gunmen have killed 3 people, including a mother and her teenage daughter in the south of Indian-administered Kashmir, a report says.

Fresh floods in China's northeastern Liaoning province have forced more than 120,000 people to evacuate their homes and thousands to relocate in North Korea.

North Korea says it has reached consensus with China on the resumption of six-party talks on its nuclear disarmament, a report says.

Pakistan's suspended chief justice has planned a fresh rally as top US officials visit for talks with embattled President Pervez Musharraf.

A US-led airstrike has killed six children and injured another child in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, amid growing public discontent over civilian deaths.

Pakistani authorities are trying to protect areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the UN warned 800,000 people remain stranded.

Police have stormed a hijacked tourist bus and killed the gunman who took it over Monday in Philippine capital of Manila

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Bemina neighborhood of Srinagar as tension is running high and threatening to boil over in Indian-administered Kashmir's summer capital.

China's police have identified two people in connection with a bomb attack in Xinjiang province that killed seven people and injured 14 others.

The North Korean Navy has confirmed that it had captured a South Korean fishing boat for intruding in its exclusive economic zone.

North Korea warns it might boost its "self-defense deterrent" if the US intensifies arms race with building its missile defense system.

At least 21 people have been killed in densely populated Nangarhar Province as torrential rain has triggered heavy flooding in eastern Afghanistan.

Unidentified gunmen have killed a former lawmaker on his way home in provincial capital of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

A gunman who seized a tourist bus full of children and adults in the Philippine's capital city of Manila has freed eight of the hostages.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir after two more people were killed by government soldiers.

Chinese officials say the crash of a North Korean military aircraft in northeastern China was due to technical malfunctions that caused the plane to lose direction.

North Korea has flown an unmanned aerial vehicle near the disputed sea border with the South amid escalating tension between the two neighbors.

A train ignoring a stop sign crashed into another train near a station in northeastern Taiwan, killing five people and injuring 16 others.

Five US soldiers are charged with deliberately targeting Afghan civilians amid growing discontent over the rising civilian causalities in the war-torn country.