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Reality television is making it big in India, particularly when the theme is finding the perfect partner.

A Pakistani provincial court has agreed to hear appeals in the cases of four men convicted in the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

The Philippine army is responding to the execution of two people by extremist Muslim militants with heavy shelling of their jungle camps on the remote island of Jolo in the south of the country.

Flooding that has claimed an estimated 1,800 lives across Asia is worsening, with forecasters predicting conditions to deteriorate further over the next few days.

Flooding that has claimed an estimated 1,800 lives across Asia is worsening, with forecasters predicting conditions to deteriorate further over the next few days.

Archbishop of Sydney George Pell has had a stellar, if controversial, rise through the ranks of the Catholic church in Australia.

Efforts towards greater regional co-operation on combating people-smuggling seem to be paying off, following a decision by a Thai court to hand over a key suspect to Australia to face charges.

Up to 700 would-be refugees could have their visas cancelled by the Australian government if they are found to be from Pakistan rather than Afghanistan.

Visitors to Australia from high-risk countries may in the future need to produce financial and employment records before they are given tourist visas, according to suggestions in an Immigration Department discussion paper.

The Australian government will push to have a death sentence commuted for a woman found guilty of drug trafficking in Vietnam.

Papua New Guinea will continue to provide a detention camp for Australian-bound asylum seekers, but warns the situation cannot continue indefinitely, the nation's new prime minister has said.

Beijing is putting more pressure on the United States to do something concrete to rein in the pro-independence gambit of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian.

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is persevering with plans to visit Southeast Asia and other regions despite efforts from Beijing to contain Taipei's diplomatic leverage.

Nearly two decades after the Bhopal poison gas disaster, an Indian magistrate has ruled that charges against the former chairman of Union Carbide chemicals will not be reduced.

A small bomb exploded Sunday night outside the United Nations guest house in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Millions in the developing world still have no access to computers or the web.

The blood-soaked bandage around farmer Gurmeet Singh's leg looks gruesome but he can wiggle his toes, meaning the limb can probably be saved.

There are flag-waving spectators, loud chants and officials blowing whistles to keep order. A football match? A show by a chart-topping bhangra band?

A peasant army of Chinese floodfighters plugged leaks on Saturday in the vast network of dykes preventing the brim full Dongting Lake swamping the homes of millions as a flood crest bore down on them.

In a further blow to Washington's effort to get global support for a possible war on Iraq, Beijing has indicated it is against the use of force to resolve Baghdad's differences with the West.

Flooding and landslides in the Chinese province of Hunan has left at least 47 dead, state media reported Friday.

China's aviation authority last week raised limits for outside-foreign investment in the nation's heavily guarded industry from a 35 percent maximum to 49 percent.

Beijing has unleashed a psychological warfare in response to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's statement that Taiwan might hold a referendum to determine its future.

In a stern reaction to provocative statements by Taiwan's leader, China's foreign ministry says Beijing will not tolerate any move towards independence by the island.

New Zealanders are likely to know the make-up of their new government by the end of this week with Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark planning to operate without the support of the Greens party.

Four people have been killed in a grenade attack on a missionary hospital near Islamabad, the second assault on a Christian institution in Pakistan in less than a week.

Twelve people have been killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir by suspected Islamic militants.

More than 70 people have been killed by floods in China this week as heavy rains cause havoc across many parts of Asia and the region braces for the onset of an el Nino weather pattern.

The United Nations special envoy to Myanmar has wrapped up a six-day mission to Yangon intended to speed up foundering reconciliation talks between the ruling military and the pro-democracy opposition.

Investigators in Southeast Asia are discovering more details about a radical terrorist network coopted by Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

The U.S. embassy in Manila is under tight security after hundreds of leftist demonstrators protested ahead of the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Dozens of flood-prevention officials and workers in Hunan Province have been fired or penalized for dereliction of duty.

Family reunions have formed the basis of a renewed process of reconciliation between North and South Korea.

The swollen Dongting Lake in central China has crested and slowly begun to ebb after hundreds of thousands of people worked around the clock to erect barriers around its shoreline, authorities said.

India's most wanted man is believed to have struck again, with police officials saying the bandit is suspected to have kidnapped a former provincial minister.

Massive flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed scores in India, China and the Korean peninsula as the monsoon combines with an el Nino weather pattern to cause havoc in the region.

Massive flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed scores in India, China and the Korean peninsula as the monsoon combines with an el Nino weather pattern to cause havoc in the region.

The accusations of sexual abuse leveled at Sydney archbishop George Pell strike at the core of the moral authority of the Catholic church in Australia. (Full story)

Mukhtara Bibi on Saturday walked into an anti-terrorism court in Punjab, Pakistan to face the four men accused of gang raping her.

The Chinese Communist Party's top disciplinary official has called on cadres to improve political discipline in line with the teachings of President Jiang Zemin.

The remains of giant geese, some weighing up to 500 kilograms, or more than half a ton, have been discovered in the central Australian desert.

Chinese authorities are warning that the nation faces possibly its worst flooding crisis in years with China's second biggest lake, the Dongting, threatening to burst its banks and placing around 10 million people at severe risk.

A court in Hong Kong has found 16 Falun Gong members guilty of obstruction in the first criminal prosecution of the group's followers in the former British colony.

Six people are dead and at least three wounded after several gunmen attacked a Christian school in a popular mountain resort in Pakistan.

Indian inventors are trying to bridge the nation's digital divide and market an affordable computer to low income earners.

Where Hong Kong residents once feared for their homeland's future under Chinese rule, there is now a growing trend towards cross-border interaction between the territory and it's mainland parent.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is handing over more and more responsibility to his newly appointed deputy, Lal Krishan Advani.

Just at the time when India is coming under international pressure to allow observers to watch the upcoming election in Kashmir, the government finds itself involved in controversies which cast doubts on the country's own polling processes.

India's most infamous bandit, Veerappan, has threatened to behead his hostage -- a former state minister nabbed on Sunday.