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Hundreds of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being detained at a facility near a U.S. Marines camp at Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan.

Intensified U.S. airstrikes have been reported outside the Pakistani border town of Miram Shah in an apparent attempt to flush out suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members trying to flee into Pakistan.

Thirty new detainees arrived at the detention facility at the Kandahar International Airport, bringing the total held there to 391.

More Taliban and al Qaeda detainees have arrived at Kandahar International Airport as about 200 Marines returned from a search of a compound that Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar may have once occupied.

A senior trainer of the al Qaeda terrorist network is now in the hands of U.S. military officials.

U.S. Special Forces and anti-Taliban Afghan fighters are stepping up efforts to root out remaining Taliban fighters as well as searching for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

The United States bombed a suspected terrorist training camp in Afghanistan on Friday as troops continued the search for Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. CNN's Bill Hemmer is in Afghanistan and talked with CNN anchor Leon Harris from Kandahar.

U.S. Marines are holding dozens of suspected Taliban fighters at a base at Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan. Officials said they hope several high-ranking al Qaeda and Taliban members in U.S. custody will yield information on the whereabouts of the groups' top leaders.

U.S. Marines continue to occupy the Kandahar International Airport, where about 380 of the Afghan war detainees are being held. About 50 others have passed through on their way to the U.S. Navy Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. CNN's Bill Hemmer was at the airport Tuesday and filed this report.

Six people required hospital treatment and a busy road intersection was closed to traffic after a swarm of bees went on the rampage in Singapore, reports said Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised Afghans that the world will not abandon their country again, saying the international community had learned the high price that is paid for neglect.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged India and Pakistan to resolve their dispute over Kashmir through dialogue rather than conflict.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that the only course for both India and Pakistan to follow was for the two sides to enter into a proper, meaningful dialogue.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived on the next stage of his three-nation South Asia tour during which he hopes to instill a calming influence.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to travel to Hyderabad on Sunday after calling for a more pivotal role in the world.

New year revelry has left a sour taste in some Asian countries, with raucous celebrations leading to a heavy death toll in the region.

Investigators have recovered six of seven bodies of U.S. Marines killed Wednesday when their KC-130 military refueling plane crashed in western Pakistan, U.S. military officials in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said Saturday.

A small crudely made bomb hidden inside a passenger van has exploded in the parking area outside the British High Commission in Islamabad.

President Bush, still on vacation at his Texas ranch, spoke with British Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday afternoon about the continued tensions between India and Pakistan.

Philippine officials have joined a chorus of several other nations in reacting angrily to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, after the U.S. leader warned that if countries did not combat terrorism on their soil, America will.

U.S. forces have found ammunition, tanks and a considerable loss of life in cave complexes formerly occupied by al Qaeda in the Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan, the head of U.S. Central Command said Friday.

Scientists in China have conducted a dissection of 'Weiwei', China's first cloned calf which died less than two hours after it was born.

China needs to place more attention on environmental protection as a growing population and rapid urbanization threaten to wreak havoc on an already perilous ecological balance, Premier Zhu Rongji has warned.

Three separate accidents in Chinese coalmines in the space of just two days have left as many as 50 miners dead.

BEIJING (AP) - China's massive Three Gorges Dam project has moved a step closer to completion as workers began dismantling an earthen wall that had kept its construction site dry, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji says his country will always remain a friend of Bangladesh, which relies heavily on Chinese assistance for development and defense.

China has criticized U.S. President George W. Bush for calling North Korea, Iran and Iraq an axis of evil during his State of the Union address.

In its first official comment on the matter China says it sees no reason why the reported bugging of President Jiang Zemin's Boeing jet should have any impact on relations between Washington and Beijing.

China's desert has grown so much that it now makes up almost 30 percent of the country's land mass.

The Chinese government has released a report alleging Muslim separatists in the western province of Xinjiang receive funds and training from Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terror network.

Beijing has dismissed as baseless a U.S. intelligence report saying China plans to boost its arsenal of nuclear missiles aimed at the United States from 20 to more than 100 over the next 15 years.

In an apparent gesture of reconciliation, China has said it welcomes visits by members of Taiwan's ruling party, which was previously shunned by Beijing.

Beijing has slammed the ban by the European Union on some Chinese food products as unacceptable, and warned of serious trade fallout as a result.

China has launched a massive 700 billion yuan ($84 billion) 5-year environmental protection plan to combat a worsening pollution problem.

Beijing has warned the United States not to interfere as it reacted to criticism over the detention of a Hong Kong resident accused of smuggling bibles into China.

Chinese analysts and government officials said Saturday they could neither confirm nor deny reports in two Western newspapers that a Boeing jet, delivered to China for use as the presidential plane, was bugged.

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama is said to be in an absolutely normal condition after being admitted to hospital for a bowel infection.

Donor countries at the Afghan aid conference in Tokyo have pledged $1.8 billion dollars for 2002, and a total of $4.5 billion dollars over five years, to reconstruct the central Asian country with barely any infrastructure.

A South Korean court has ordered a U.S. serviceman jailed for the murder of a South Korean bar girl to pay $175,000 (230 million won) in compensation to the victim's family.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesday the United States needs to maintain a presence in Afghanistan for as long as needed and must not abandon the war-ravaged nation.

A group claiming to be the kidnappers of a U.S. journalist in Pakistan said it would extend the deadline to kill him to Friday -- thus giving him a day's reprieve.

British and Afghan authorities signed an agreement Friday that will pave the way for international security forces to help restore order to Afghanistan's capital.

Twenty al Qaeda and Taliban fighters -- sedated, hooded and chained -- were scheduled to arrive Friday at a makeshift prison at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is close to unveiling a bold and principled initiative aimed at easing the threat of war with India, according to U.S. senators.

A suggestion that Afghanistan temporarily dollarize its economy has sparked chaotic scenes on the informal currency exchanges in Kabul, wiping about 25\% off the value of the Afghani currency.

An earthquake measuring magnitude 6 shook parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Thursday, seismologists reported.

East Timor has formally inaugurated a truth and reconciliation commission in an effort to heal the emotional scars inflicted on its people after 25 years of often brutal occupation.

Unidentified gunmen have killed eight members of a family including several women and children in a small village in the Indian-controlled part of the disputed region of Kashmir, police say.

The managing editor of the Wall Street Journal has appealed via e-mail for the release of one their reporters abducted in Pakistan.