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A prominent hard line Hindu group says it will not back down from its deadline to build a temple at the center of a bloody religious dispute in western India.

India's home minister L.K. Advani on Sunday visited the sight of a train attack that touched off days of religious riots in Gujarat state, blamed for at least 289 deaths.

A top security chief has rejected the possibility of negotiating with Abu Sayyaf guerrillas holding an American missionary couple.

It begins with a ringing bell.

A manhunt is under way in Pakistan for suspects in a grenade attack on a church in Islamabad which left at least five people dead and scores of others injured.

Security forces are pouring into northern India and the town of Ayodhya, ahead of a deadline set by Hindu hardliners to pray near the disputed site of a demolished mosque.

Security forces are pouring into northern India and the town of Ayodhya, ahead of a deadline set by Hindu hardliners to pray near the disputed site of a demolished mosque.

A controversial anti-terrorism bill is likely to be passed during a rare joint session of both houses of India's parliament.

Indian police and army troops appear to have regained control of the western Indian state of Gujarat after three days of religious violence that has left almost 300 people dead.

One hundred amorous couples in the Indian city of Kolkata plan to hold a kiss and hug protest later this month to call for a special love zone to be created in the city.

Opposition parties in India have protested against the government's handling of the recent sectarian violence in Gujarat state.

The threat of renewed religious violence continued to linger over northern India, with a hardline Hindu group insisting it would build a temple on a site central to recent deadly clashes.

The speaker of the Indian Parliament's lower house, G.M.C. Balayogi, has been killed in a helicopter crash.

Police have opened fire on a mob of Hindus and Muslims battling each other in a third day of religious violence sweeping northern India.

A last minute change of heart appears to have averted more violence in the Indian town of Ayodhya after plans to hold a prayer ceremony at a disputed holy site were aborted.

Security forces in western India are struggling to calm communal violence that is pitting Hindus against Muslims.

A controversial anti-terrorism bill has been passed by a rare parliamentary debate but only after the opposition strongly argued it would curb civil rights.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has played down the possibility of a nuclear conflict with Pakistan.

With religious violence that has left hundreds dead now 'under control' in India, residents in the state of Gujarat are facing the arduous task of rebuilding and returning to some sort of normality.

The following is the manifesto of the Indigenous Peoples Federal Army.

The speaker of Indonesia's parliament and head of the once-mighty Golkar party has gone on trial charged with corruption.

If you want to collect admiring stares at the beach this summer in your hot new bathing suit, eat raspberries by the bushel.

For a third time, a Pakistani judge Tuesday extended the deadline for prosecutors to file charges against suspects in the kidnap-slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl, but warned them that time was running out.

For a third time, a Pakistani judge Tuesday extended the deadline for prosecutors to file charges against suspects in the kidnap-slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl, but warned them that time was running out.

As fierce fighting rages in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials say they believe al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are regrouping in Pakistan with the aim of returning to Afghanistan.

Separatist ethnic Karen fighters have launched one of their biggest attacks on the Myanmar army since the mid-1990s, leaving about 30 dead.

Local government officials in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir are denying claims DNA tests were falsified to cover up the deaths of five innocent civilians.

At least 52 people were wounded on Friday in grenade attacks in two Indian-administered Kashmir towns, police say.

South Korea is to send a special envoy to North Korea in a bid to restart stalled bilateral relations.

Amid sagging U.S.-North Korean relations, South Korean and American forces have launched their biggest war games since 1953 -- exercises described by Pyongyang as a prelude to attack.

The Far Eastern Economic Review magazine has apologized to Thailand for an article that provoked police to order the expulsion of two of its reporters.

Two reporters from the Far Eastern Economic Review have been cleared of criminal charges but may still be deported for an article that hints at sour relations between the country's king and prime minister.

It is possibly the heaviest and biggest sporting team on the planet, outweighing the more popular and world famous basketball, cricket and football sides that grace television screens and newspapers.

The pace of Operation Anaconda in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan has slowed, but sporadic fighting continues as U.S.-led forces search for remaining pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban loyalists.

U.S. commanders declared Operation Anaconda a success Tuesday as the biggest U.S. ground offensive since the Persian Gulf War officially ended. The operation, originally expected to last 72 hours, took more than two weeks.

Operation Anaconda continued Thursday in eastern Afghanistan as U.S.-led forces combed the mountainous region in pursuit of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.

Afghanistan is a very beautiful and a dangerous place -- a land of contradiction. It seems that for every pleasure there's a price.

India's home minister L.K. Advani has visited the site of a train attack that sparked days of religious riots in Gujarat, blamed for more than 450 deaths.

India's home minister L.K. Advani has visited the site of a train attack that sparked days of religious riots in Gujarat, blamed for more than 450 deaths.

For the first time in months, a videotape of an American missionary couple was released Thursday, showing them looking healthy while reading a statement from Abu Sayyaf, the militant rebel group holding them hostage in the Philippines.

U.S. forces secured two compounds Wednesday in Bamiyan, a city in north-central Afghanistan, taking al Qaeda suspects into custody and questioning a group of Taliban prisoners.

U.S., allied and Afghan forces have taken control of the Shah-e-kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan in one of the most significant developments of Operation Anaconda.

Storm-swirled dust kept U.S. attack helicopters grounded in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, but other aircraft and ground troops continued the fiercest battle yet of the five-month war. An Army spokesman said Operation Anaconda is open-ended, targeting al Qaeda and Taliban fighters holed up in the mountains of Paktia province near Gardez.

The cold gets worse. The five of us -- myself, cameraman Scott McWhinnie, an Agence France-Presse journalist and two armed public affairs soldiers -- are shivering violently.

Al Qaeda fighters showed no signs of surrender even as U.S.-led coalition forces dominated much of the high ground in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Friday.

Breaking a long silence about his love life, Hong Kong's financial chief Antony Leung has confirmed a newspaper report that he is dating Chinese Olympic gold medallist diver Fu Mingxia.

Nearly half a billion people around the world had access to the Internet from their homes by the end of last year, according to market research firm Nielsen/NetRatings.

At a medal ceremony honoring soldiers who fought with valor in Afghanistan, the head of U.S. Central Command on Monday said Operation Anaconda would be completed within 12 hours (about 1:25 p.m. EST).

About 2,000 troops from the U.S.-led military coalition were engaged in close-in combat Monday with small pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the rugged terrain of northeastern Afghanistan as part of an offensive called Operation Anaconda, according to U.S. military officials.