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Officials in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are warning that up to five dams in the region may collapse following heavy monsoon rains.

Parts of the troubled riot-torn state of Gujarat have been given a frantic makeover ahead of a controversial visit by the Indian president.

Panic-stricken Indian villagers are blaming UFOs for a spate of attacks that have killed several people and injured many others in Uttar Pradesh state.

The men and women in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are trying to rebuild their homes and their lives after a portion of a 125-year-old dam near their village burst after five days of heavy rains.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is on his way to Indonesian after signing a terror pact with Southeast Asian nations in Brunei.

Months after authorities in Southeast Asia revealed the existence of a terrorist network operating in several countries, officials in the U.S., Singapore and Malaysia are pressuring Indonesia to arrest the network's alleged leader.

Iraq has reversed a decision to ban imports of Australian wheat after personal intervention by a trade delegation.

Religious fundamentalists are pressuring the Indonesian government to incorporate traditional Islamic law as part of the nation's constitution, holding a series of rallies outside the parliament in Jakarta.

Usually Japan's local elections don't attract international attention. But a race for governor in the mountainous Nagano prefecture, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics, is by all means unusual.

Japan and North Korea are wrapping up their first high-level talks in two years amid hopes the reclusive communist nation would seek improved relations with the rest of the world.

Japan and North Korea have wrapped up their first high-level talks in two years without resolving long-standing disputes, but the two nations have agreed to hold further discussions within a month.

President Jiang Zemin's bid to stay in power has encountered new resistance even as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announces that its 16th Congress will be held on November 8.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin has celebrated an improvement in relations with Russia during a meeting in Beijing with visiting Premier Mikhail Kasyanov.

Philippine authorities have given an armed gang with ties to the Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerilla group five days to release four Christian hostages or face an all out military assault.

Foreign ministers and diplomats attending the ASEAN meeting in Brunei have wrapped up four days of talks by letting their hair down with a show stopping series of karaoke performances.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed allegations of an American cover up after a deadly air raid in which U.S. jets struck a wedding party on June 30.

Tuesday morning's attack on Hindus taking part in the annual pilgrimage to the sacred cave of Amarnath in Kashmir has once again demonstrated the dangerous position in that state.

A leading Kashmiri separatist leader has ruled out participating in upcoming elections in the disputed region but has indicated a willingness to begin talks with New Delhi.

The lives of hundreds of thousands of Indonesia's villagers have been improved with money sent from relatives working in Malaysia.

Malaysia has detained a group of around 100 suspected illegal immigrants on the first day of controversial new laws that give authorities the powers to whip them and put them in prison.

Every year in the town of Puri, eastern India, a colorful religious procession takes place.

In the stifling desert of northern Afghanistan, lying as still as the air, is evidence of the gruesome fate that met hundreds of Taliban fighters late last year.

Nepal's Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a dissolved parliament, essentially allowing mid-term elections to continue as scheduled on November 13 and handing beleaguered Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba a huge constitutional and political victory.

Nepal's Defense Ministry says that 30 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with government forces Monday night in the far-western district of Rolpa.

A massive landslide in eastern Nepal has claimed up to 70 lives, officials say.

North Korea is armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction and busy selling its weapons and missile technology to any state willing to pay for it, a top U.S. official has warned.

A new study has found that mobile phone radiation is unlikely to increase the risk of cancer, challenging earlier research which suggested a possible link.

A group of 21 North Korean family members has arrived in South Korea after spending two days on a fishing boat in what is believed to be the biggest such defection from the communist state.

North and South Korean officials are expected to release a statement later today outlining the outcomes from this week's reconciliation talks.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will govern for a second three-year term with the support of the family-orientated United Future party.

Nearly one million residents and soldiers in China's Hunan Province have joined the fight against the biggest flood in decades.

The movie Enemy of the State featured high tech bugs, small enough to fit into the sole of a shoe.

Australia's reluctance to sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming is emerging as a key issue in this year's South Pacific Forum.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is visiting China for the fourth time in seven months highlighting the value to both countries of a solid diplomatic relationship in times of regional change.

Police have arrested 16 members of two banned Muslim militant groups -- Jaish-e Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi -- suspected in attacks on Christians interests in Pakistan, police sources said Wednesday.

Pakistan is winning the fight against terrorism according to President Pervez Musharraf, who has vowed to crush Islamic military in the country in an Independence Day address to the nation.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao's ability to take over the helm has been cast into doubt by redoubled attempts by the army to profess total allegiance to President Jiang Zemin.

Pressure is mounting on the Australian government to rein in its rhetoric on Iraq as the Gulf nation makes good its threats to cut wheat purchases.

Members of Force 055 are Osama bin Laden's closest bodyguards, and right now the elite fighters are playing cat and mouse with U.S. troops in the mountains of Afghanistan.

During the lunar month of the hungry ghost festival, lucky rice packets are distributed in Hong Kong to the elderly as a mark of festive gesture and respect.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has been refused entry to Russia, where he had planned to meet with Buddhist groups in September.

Pakistani police say three men who blew themselves up near a checkpoint may have connections with an attack at a Christian school earlier this week.

Muslim factions in Indonesia and Malaysia have made a concerted push in recent months to implement Shariah law, the Islamic legal and moral code derived predominantly from the Holy Koran.

Stricken British Navy destroyer Nottingham is finally on the move again after spending a month stranded off the coast of a remote island in the Tasman Sea.

The archbishop of Sydney has announced he is going to temporarily step aside while an investigation is conducted into allegations that he sexually abused a child.

Relations between China and Taiwan are being tested again as the island renews lobbying for separate representation at the United Nations.

Taiwan's top office dealing with relations with mainland China has said the island has no plans to hold a referendum on independence, unless action by Beijing forces its hand.

Taiwan's leader has turned up the cross-strait rhetoric, backing legislation for an independence referendum and referring to China and Taiwan as two countries -- echoing comments made by his predecessor three years ago that infuriated Beijing.

The talk in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, is once again all about the hold of the mafia on an industry that's known the world over as Bollywood.

Three teenage brothers have successfully cycled a gruelling 4,700 kilometers (2,900 miles) across Australia to raise money for street kids in India and China.