Pakistani authorities were Monday racing to protect two southern towns and their 360,000 residents from surging floods, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory.
A month and a half after...
At least 19 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.
Nine policemen and four schoolchildren...
Maoist rebels in eastern India Monday released three policemen held hostage, three days after the guerrillas killed another abducted officer, officials said.
The four men were taken captive in the state of Bihar on August 29...
Four people were killed Monday when Indian security forces opened fire on stone-throwing protesters during fresh demonstrations against Indian rule in Kashmir, police said.
A total of 69 protesters and bystanders have been killed...
A US drone on Monday fired two missiles at a vehicle carrying militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area, near the Afghan border, killing five rebels, officials said.
The strike occurred at Khar Qamar, a village in Datta Khel...
US General David Petraeus, the commander of the war in Afghanistan, has requested 2,000 extra troops to bolster a crucial mission to train Afghan security forces, a NATO official said Monday.
The mission would come on the heels of...
Afghanistan's central bank said Monday it was willing to offer loans to bail out troubled Kabul Bank as nervous depositors continued taking out their savings.
Hundreds of customers have been queuing at branches across the country...
A prominent Afghan television news journalist and political activist has been murdered near his Kabul home, police and media rights groups said Monday, describing the killing as a "brutal beheading."
Sayed Hamid Noori, who was...
Indian tycoon Anil Ambani's plans to slash debt of his flagship firm Reliance Communications by selling assets to telecom tower company GTL Infrastructure have collapsed, an announcement said Monday.
GTL said in a notice to the...
The senior Commonwealth Games Federation official in New Delhi has warned that essential safety certificates have still not been handed over for the athletes' village and some sports venues.
The Games open in the Indian capital on...