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Pakistan has detained about a dozen people suspected in setting up a weekend explosion on a tourist bus carrying mostly European travelers near an archaeological site.

More than 10 months after the attacks of September 11, the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden remain a mystery. Abdel Bari Atwan says bin Laden associates told him the al Qaeda leader is alive and recovering from injuries caused by U.S. bombing near Tora Bora in late 2001. Atwan, editor of the London-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds, spoke to CNN's Kyra Phillips Monday.

Falun Gong is said to be a form of breathing exercises, known as qigong in Chinese, which aims to refine the body and mind through exercises and meditation similar to tai chi.

Indian security forces Thursday traded shots with suspected Islamic militants -- killing at least three -- holed up in a mosque and a nearby house in Indian-administered Kashmir, a police source said.

At least nine European tourists and two Pakistanis have been wounded in a grenade attack in Pakistan's North West Frontier province.

A Malaysian coffeeshop owner has claimed that a treatment for hiccups left him partially deaf, damaged his throat and shortened his penis, a news report said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has set up a five-member delegation to investigate the assassination of one of the country's three vice presidents.

The man expected to be named as India's new president believes fear of nuclear conflict averted war with Pakistan last month.

India is condemning a weekend massacre in Indian Kashmir, calling it terrorism in its most naked form.

A desperate rearguard action by India's tailend batsmen was not enough to avert yet another overseas loss, this time against England in the First Test at Lord's by 170 runs.

Indian Airlines has recruited the services of a beauty clinic in an attempt to counter passenger claims that its cabin crew are out of shape, speak poorly and don't smile.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has made a sweeping reshuffle of his cabinet in a bid to strengthen the ruling coalition ahead of state elections next year.

Authorities in Indian controlled Kashmir say at least two members of India's security forces and two militants have been killed in a fierce gun battle.

A leading Indian politician has accused state government officials of abusing new anti-terror laws after being arrested for expressing support for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels.

India has told Britain's foreign secretary it will make no further concessions to ease tensions with Pakistan, until Islamabad acts against anti-Indian Islamic militants.

India's deputy prime minister says he will outline for parliament New Delhi's response to a militant attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani says Pakistan must tear down militant infrastructure as well as halt infiltration into Indian-controlled Kashmir before tension between the two nuclear rivals could ease.

Japan has agreed a deal with Kazakhstan giving it the right to emit 62,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year under an arrangement designed to help Japan meet its emission targets under the Kyoto protocol, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Pakistani police are investigating an apparent grenade attack on a tourist bus carrying at least 21 tourists most of them Europeans.

The tragic death of 39 workers at a coal mine in Jilin province could have been averted if the miners had not been ordered back into the pit the night before the fatal gas explosion.

In a speech to his country on Friday, Pakistan's military president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf dismissed reports of large numbers of U.S. combat troops operating in Pakistan.

Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has issued a decree that effectively bars his two predecessors from becoming prime minister after elections scheduled for October, or of ever holding that office again.

Britain's foreign minister has played down speculation Pakistan's president has shunned him because he is seen as to bias towards India's position on the disputed territory of Kashmir.

'Genesis,' once the world's most expensive home, is set to get a new lease of life from its owners.

A day after his assassination in Afghanistan's capital, Haji Abdul Qadir was buried Sunday in his hometown of Jalalabad.

U.S. and British Special Forces have instituted a new security checkpoint system as they hunt for al Qaeda and Taliban loyalists in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan.

Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials are investigating a U.S. attack on a central Afghan village that killed dozens of people at a wedding party.

North and South Korea are once again embroiled in a potentially explosive row, sparked by a naval clash that occurred off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, a disputed zone in the Yellow Sea.

A New Zealand man who is the stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will be deported from the United States after being arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist activity.

During a landmark visit to Dhaka, Pakistan's president has said he regretted the violent events of Bangladesh's 1971 independence war against his country.

Against a backdrop of continued violence in Kashmir, Pakistan has fired its latest salvo in the war of words with India, hitting out at New Delhi's verbal attack over the disputed region.

Police in Pakistan say they have arrested the second of four suspects wanted for carrying out the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl on the orders of a tribal council.

The Pearl family released the following statement on its Web site in response to Monday's conviction of four men for the killing and kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl:

The British-born Islamic militant convicted of the kidnapping and slaying of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl has lashed out at his death sentence and threatened retaliation by calling for a Muslim uprising.

The trial in Pakistan of four men accused of kidnapping and killing American journalist Daniel Pearl concluded Wednesday, as the judge retired to consider his ruling.

The Pentagon on Friday denied a report broadcast on Abu Dhabi television that seven Americans had been killed, 14 wounded, and a number of others kidnapped in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has denied a U.S. plane that bombed an Afghan wedding party had instigated the attack based on information supplied by a rival faction of the bombing victims.

As police battled with thousands of protesters, Philippine's president vowed to keep up the pressure on terrorists and kidnappers in her second state of the nation address.

The United States will provide $10 million in emergency military assistance to the Philippines because of an an unforeseen emergency ... that requires immediate military counterterrorism assistance.

Philippine Vice President Teofista Guingona has resigned from his post as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following a policy dispute with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Security forces in Pakistan say they have arrested three suspects in the June 14 car bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and another attack more than a month earlier.

Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir, who was assassinated Saturday by gunmen in Kabul, led a life of shifting alliances aimed at protecting Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun clan.

Four members of an extreme-left Japanese organization who hijacked an airplane to North Korea 32 years ago are now preparing to return to Japan.

Gunmen waiting outside the gates of a government ministry Saturday afternoon opened fire on a vehicle carrying one of Afghanistan's three vice presidents, killing him and his driver.

U.S. and Afghan investigators reached the southern Afghanistan village of Deh Rawud on Wednesday to look at the circumstances of a U.S. attack that may have killed dozens of civilians.

South Korea's parliament has voted to reject the first-ever female nominee for the job of prime minister.

South Korea's defense minister has proposed changing the rules of engagement for clashes with North Korea following a deadly naval border battle over the weekend.

A cabinet reshuffle by South Korean President Kim Dae-jung replaces his prime minister and defense minister -- both of whom had been criticized in the wake of a deadly naval clash with North Korea last month.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in Pakistan for talks with senior officials in the final leg of his South Asia peace mission.

Taiwanese rescuers in helicopters and dinghies have braved high seas and lashing winds to save more than 110 Chinese fishermen from a burning boat.