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The man named by Indian police as the prime suspect behind last month's attack on an American cultural center in city of Kolkata has been arrested in Dubai and extradited, officials in New Delhi say.

You look awful! Those were the words of my wife heard over the warble of the satellite phone.

Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai expressed willingness to help resolve a conflict between two rival Pashtun forces in eastern Afghanistan, a spokesman for Pashtun leader Syed Hamid Gailani said Saturday.

The leader of Afghanistan's interim government, Hamid Karzai, says the killing of Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism Abdul Rahman was an assassination.

About 200 fighters for one of northern Afghanistan's key warlords have laid down their weapons in a ceremony that may mark the first step towards broader disarmament.

I don't like land mines. Never have. Never will.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his top envoys stepped up lobbying in the White House and elsewhere this week on expanding the foreign troop presence in Afghanistan.

A passenger bus has plunged off a road and down a 100 meter (340 foot) high slope in China's southwest, killing 10 people.

Defense lawyers for Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's jailed former deputy prime minister, say they want more time to argue their case in a final appeal against their client's corruption conviction.

Security surrounding two of India's biggest cricket stars will revert to normal for the upcoming test series following the arrest of a Pakistani accused of plotting to kidnap them.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has suggested she may look at seeking the services of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to clean up a crime wave sweeping Manila.

Let's face it. There's not a lot to do at the Kandahar Airport when you have nothing to do.

The dreaded weather patterns associated with the so-called El Nino weather phenomenon could again wreak havoc in the Asia-Pacific region.

At least three people were killed and more than 20 others may be missing in a snow avalanche in Afghanistan that cut off one end of a key mountain tunnel, according to an official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Australian Paul Crake has won the Empire State Building Run-up for the fourth consecutive time.

Alarmed by a growing spate of acid attacks targeting young women, the Bangladeshi government has proposed introducing a maximum penalty of death for offenders.

A customer service officer at a Singapore branch of British banking giant HSBC Holdings is facing nearly 10,000 years in prison for siphoning S$12.6 million ($6.9 million) from an internal account.

Women arriving at a Bangkok bar without a man may face being turned away, or worse still, arrested.

Pakistani police had two men in custody Sunday -- and detained and released a third man -- in connection with false claims about the whereabouts of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

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The Wall Street Journal said Saturday it concluded that conflicting e-mail claims regarding the fate of kidnapped reporter Daniel Pearl were false and asked for proof he was still alive. CNN's Ben Wedeman is in Karachi, Pakistan, where the investigation into Pearl's abduction continues.

The credibility of India's ruling party has been dealt a severe blow in crucial state elections.

Two bomb blasts have rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least five people and wounding dozens.

Hoping to ease long lines and growing frustrations at Kabul's airport, the British military sent a transport plane here Sunday night to carry Muslims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

British security forces on peacekeeping duties in Kabul have opened fire on a man who shot at their observation post in the Afghan capital, an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesman has told CNN.

British troops have come under fire in Afghanistan for the second time in less than a week.

U.S. President George W. Bush has said he is committed to the security of South Korea but will continue to speak out about the nature of the North Korean regime.

Opening an official visit to Japan, President Bush has expressed his confidence in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reforms designed to bring his nation out of the economic doldrums.

Drawing his visit to Japan to a close U.S. President George W. Bush has proclaimed the country's troubled economy on the path to reform and urged the Japanese government to do its part in stopping the spread of terrorism in Asia.

President Bush has wrapped up his trip to South Korea rallying troops at Osan Air Base and touting the U.S. military as the best in the world before leaving for his first visit to China.

U.S. President George W. Bush has taken his first look at North Korea -- one of three countries he has labeled as forming an axis of evil.

President George W. Bush has defended his axis of evil rhetoric, stressing the U.S. was willing to seize the moment in its campaign against terrorism.

President Bush returned to Washington on Friday after concluding a six-day tour of Japan, South Korea and China that was one of the most ambitious diplomatic missions of his year-old presidency.

On the eve of a visit to East Asia, U.S. President George W. Bush has reassured South Korea that the United States is seeking dialogue with North Korea despite calling the communist state part of an axis of evil.

U.S. President George W. Bush has arrived in South Korea, the second and potentially most sensitive stop on his six day, three-nation tour of Asia.

President Bush has said he welcomes the emergence of a strong, peaceful and prosperous China but has urged Chinese to embrace liberty, tolerance and religious freedom as the country opens up.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has called for calm after up to 50 people were killed when an angry mob set fire to a passenger train in the western state of Gujarat.

Former Khmer Rouge military chief, Ta Mok, has been charged by the Cambodian government with crimes against humanity.

Preliminary results from Cambodia's first-ever local elections show the prime minister's party winning a large majority of seats in the capital.

Cambodia's prime minister has called on the United Nations to reconsider its withdrawal from talks on bringing former Khmer Rouge leaders to trial, urging the world body not to fall into the wrong path again with the country's former rulers.

Incidents of violence have marred Cambodia's landmark local elections, but voters continued to turn out in high numbers at the polls.

Cambodian officials say the government will proceed with plans to try former Khmer Rouge leaders on genocide charges despite an announcement by the United Nations that it is withdrawing from talks on the tribunal.

Australia's head of state has avoided a direct response to increasingly strident calls for his resignation over claims he covered up child sex abuse in the Anglican Church.

A Hong Kong businessman jailed by China for smuggling bibles into the country has been freed and reports say he has returned to Hong Kong.

Chinese authorities have detained about 40 Western members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement after a brief protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

China has expelled 53 Westerners who staged a protest at Beijing's Tiananmen Square against China's crackdown on the Falun Gong religious sect.

Chinese police say they have arrested their most wanted human trafficker, a gang leader believed to be responsible for smuggling hundreds of illegal emigrants last year.

Embarking on another sensitive diplomatic journey, President Bush has arrived in China for a 30-hour stay before concluding a six-day trip to east Asia.

What is possibly the planet's largest annual mass migration of humanity has begun with the start of the Chinese New Year holidays welcoming in the Year of the Horse.

In a sign that Beijing is actively seeking ways to penetrate a future United State's missile defense shield, China is reported to have tested a ballistic missile capable of delivering multiple warheads.