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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has arrived in Ahmedabad for a one-day tour of the riot-torn state of Gujarat Thursday as the death toll in the state rises.

A rally for Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ended in violence when baton-wielding police attacked journalists covering the event.

On April 30, 2002, Pakistan will hold a referendum to determine whether military President Pervez Musharraf should stay in power for another five years.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin held talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as demonstrators criticizing Beijing's human rights record were kept behind police lines.

Worsening religious violence in the western state of Gujarat has left dozens dead in the last week and spawned a growing refugee crisis as more than 100,000 people, mostly Muslims, have taken shelter in camps.

Two explosions rocked the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and fueling fresh fears about future terror attacks in the southeast Asian nation.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met Saturday with Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai and said the United States would participate in an international trust fund to help build a new Afghan army.

The U.S. military wrapped up its first large-scale operation in Afghanistan in over a month Saturday, as hundreds of troops located, searched and destroyed caves once used by al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

Persisent sand storms that have plagued China are now creating mayhem and discomfort across much of northern Asia, including South Korea and Mongolia.

Reporters from all around the world are covering the war in Afghanistan, but CNN's Martin Savidge was the first television reporter to travel with U.S. troops during Operation Anaconda. Now back home in Atlanta, Georgia, Savidge sat down and talked about his experience with CNN's Kyra Phillips.

The leader of the Tamil Tigers, appearing in public for the first time in 15 years, says conditions are not yet right for giving up the demand for an independent state, but says he is serious about ending his 18-year separatist war in Sri Lanka.

The delicate peace in Indonesia's Moluccas region has been shattered after a Muslim mob attack on a Christian area that left at least 11 people dead.

Investigators are trying to identify human remains, including a skull, arm and pelvis, found in a three-meter Tiger shark caught off the New South Wales coast.

Government power station workers are near an agreement to end their six-week-old strike and have cancelled a planned general strike, a spokesman for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) told CNN.

The Sri Lankan peace process has advanced into uncharted territory, with the island nation's prime minister welcoming peace overtures made by the leader of the rebel Tamil Tigers.

Scientists in Taiwan are warning residents to brace for further aftershocks following a weekend earthquake that killed five people.

Scantily clad models paid to promote the latest cars at motor shows are hardly camera shy.

At least three people were killed and at least 16 others were wounded Tuesday when an explosive device went off in the disputed Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police sources said.

A trainee fire-fighter is facing 16 charges of lighting fires which contributed to the devastating blazes which engulfed Sydney for more than two weeks over the last Christmas and New Year period.

The World Food Programme is urging donor nations to review aid pledges to North Korea, warning that without urgent action its food stores could run dry by the middle of the year.

Citing numerous acts of physical intimidation and vandalism in the United States, Falun Gong practitioners Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit in a U.S. District Court against two ministries of the People's Republic of China.

Nearly 400 U.S. troops returned Saturday from searching and destroying caves formerly used by al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

A U.S. fighter pilot involved in a friendly fire incident that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan dropped a laser-guided bomb after his commanders denied permission to do so, U.S. officials said Thursday.

A team of U.S. air safety experts has arrived in South Korea to assist investigations into Monday's crash of an Air China plane.

The pace of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan has slowed, but the shooting of a U.S. soldier early Wednesday in Kandahar demonstrates that danger and political uncertainty remains.

Afghanistan's former king returned home Thursday after nearly 30 years in exile, landing at an air base outside Kabul amid tight security.

Calling it a very serious blow to al Qaeda, the White House on Tuesday celebrated the capture of one of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants but refused to disclose where the man is being held.