Police have detained 80 people who walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak in central India to protest outside the prime minister's residence in New Dehli, an organiser said.
The US military says an air strike has destroyed a house in the southern city of Basra, killing a militant, but it does not have reports of civilian deaths.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA director James Woolsey are urging the US to boycott next year's United Nations anti-racism conference which they have dubbed anti-Semitic.
A former parliament speaker and aide to murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was nominated today as the parliamentary majority's choice to be Pakistan's next prime minister.
US President George Bush was today compared to ill-starred Roman general Crassus - whose invasion of Iraq 2,000 years ago led to disaster for the West.
Crowds of Nepalese Gurkhas have descended on the British Parliament to watch 50 veterans hand back their medals in protest at their "immoral discrimination".
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed an inquiry will be held to learn "all possible lessons" from the Iraq war - but resisted calls for it to be held immediately.
In the lead-up to the fifth "anniversary" the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Amnesty International has issued a new briefing showing the "disastrous" human rights situation in the country.
Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles marching in northern India to Tibet in protest at China's staging of the Olympic Games, organisers and officials said.
Lawyers in Pakistan said today that a court has quashed another corruption charge against Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The United Nations' Security Council approved a third round of sanctions against Iran over its refu-sal to suspend its uranium enrichment programme with almost unanimous support yesterday.
A suicide bomber attacked an anti-al Qaida peace meeting attended by thousands of tribe members in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in the third suicide blast in the region in as many days.
Amidst the chaos, Political unstability, violence, foreign interference and heavy handed tactics of the sitting 'President', Pakistani elections took place.
Pakistan today lifted restrictions on YouTube that knocked out access to the video-sharing web site in many countries for up to two hours over the weekend.
This is not a survey or the work of human right organisation, the people of Pakistan have given verdict and have shown serious dissent to the policies of General Musharraf.
Conservationists welcomed an Indian government plan to create eight new reserves to protect the country's dwindling tiger population, and called today for more action to prevent illegal trading in tiger parts.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has rejected a report by British detectives into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, saying it has "achieved nothing".
