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Australia's most internationally recognized athlete, Cathy Freeman, has put her husband's health ahead of personal glory at this year's Commonwealth Games.

For aging relatives, this week's reunions between North and South Korean families were temporary, and far too short. Only three days at the North's Keumgang Mountains.

Pakistani paramilitary forces, along with local tribal scouts, have rounded up 25 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members from the town of Wana in the Northwest Frontier province, according to tribal sources.

Pakistan have recorded the biggest Test cricket victory in their 50 year history, thumping an undermanned New Zealand line-up by an innings and 324 runs.

In a low-key statement that seemed aimed at defusing a diplomatic row, Pakistan said it 'noted with disappointment' India's decision to ask Pakistan's top envoy to New Delhi to leave India.

Pakistan has dismissed as a lame excuse comments by Indian Home Minister LK Advani accusing Islamabad of trying to stoke the flames of sectarian violence in the troubled western state of Gujarat.

Pakistan is considering moving thousands of troops away from its border with Afghanistan to defend its frontier with India, as the nation puts itself on a war footing.

Pakistan is considering moving thousands of troops away from its border with Afghanistan to defend its frontier with India, as the nation puts itself on a war footing.

Police in the Philippines raided a suspected al Qaeda terrorist training camp this weekend and arrested nine people at an Islamic school in the northern part of this Southeast Asian nation.

A Philippine air force fighter jet taking part in war exercises with the United States military exploded in mid-air and crashed into a school north of Manila.

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight has landed at Kabul airport, the first in 23 years.

Papua New Guinea is on the brink of an HIV/AIDS epidemic that could reduce its potential workforce by nearly 40 percent over the next 18 years.

Australian Treasurer Peter Costello's seventh budget, to be delivered Tuesday, seems destined to be more a political agenda statement than a national balance sheet.

The first of more than 200 former pro-Taliban Pakistani fighters have arrived in Peshawar from Afghanistan as part of a repatriation agreement between the two countries.

Pro-whaling nations suffered an early defeat at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission when the body rejected Iceland's bid for full membership.

Pakistan was preparing a possible nuclear missile attack on India in 1999 during a military confrontation in the mountains of Kashmir, according to an article by a Clinton administration national security official.

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have found over 200 bodies after refloating a ferry that sunk in the south the country last week.

Australia's often-maligned media laws are set for another revamp this month, but few, if any of major players are likely to be entirely happy with the outcome.

While relations with the U.S. will likely remain difficult for the foreseeable future, Beijing has a new headache on the geopolitical front: Russia.

Officials fear sabotage may have been behind an express train derailment in northern India, which killed 12 people and injured at least 70.

Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines have signed an anti-terror pact in a bid to smash militant cells operating in the region.

A growing band of senior Australian cricketers are refusing to tour Pakistan later this year because of security fears sparked by a fatal bomb blast earlier this month in Karachi.

Shark's fins are everywhere in Hong Kong -- they grace restaurant entrances to improve the Feng Shui, posters advertise them for women's health and they are marketed as a top choice for wedding banquets.

Mention Siachen to anyone bar Indians and Pakistanis and it will mean little, but for those on the sub-continent it is the ultimate symbol in the dispute over Kashmir.

South Korea is testing more livestock for foot-and-mouth disease after pigs in four separate farms tested positive on Saturday.

President Kim Dae-jung has quit his ruling party and apologized for a series of corruption scandals involving his sons and some confidants.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has told soldiers serving in Kashmir that the time has come for a decisive battle.

Closing a meeting on terrorism, Southeast Asian nations vowed to work closer together to deal with terror threats and to align internal anti-terror laws.

One of the State Department's top officials will travel to India and Pakistan next week in an effort to defuse tensions between the two countries, the State Department said Friday.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met diplomats and party activists on her second day of freedom, as she begun the long struggle to rebuild the country's battered democracy movement.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has said she is impatient for change in the military-ruled country.

Floods on China's Yangtze River have arrived a month earlier than normal following weeks of continuous rain, says state-run media.

The Taipei government has ordered the implementation of the second phase of water restrictions as a prolonged drought continues to push the water level of the city's reservoir to dangerous lows.

Taiwan is once again making its presence felt in the international political stage by vying for recognition by the World Health Organization.

Taiwan has publicly test fired a locally made Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile for the first time, in a move observers say mainland China could interpret as a flexing of military muscle.

In normal times, a visitor to Ahmedabad would think it was one of the most modern and prosperous cities in India.

Thailand and Australia have begun free-trade talks and agreed to work more closely on combating terrorism and the drug trade in the region.

In September 1999 Brigadier-General Taur Matan Ruak, the commander of East Timor's new army, took one of the toughest decisions of his life.

As East Timor celebrates its hard-won independence, the biggest challenge facing the world's newest nation is still ahead -- building an economy.

Indonesia has resumed its first trials of five senior police and Indonesian military officers over a church massacre in East Timor by militiamen opposed to the territory's vote for independence.

East Timor's president-elect Xanana Gusmao says his top priority after he is sworn in early Monday morning will be to improve the daily lives of ordinary Timorese.

It has pristine white sand beaches, world-class diving, stunning mountain scenery and it is ready to welcome the world's tourists.

At least two people have been killed in a resurgence of religious violence in the strife-torn Indian state of Gujarat, police said Thursday.

A United Nations expert team has arrived in Australia to examine conditions facing people who arrive in the country illegally.

U.S. Special Forces and their Afghan allies were involved in a pre-dawn skirmish Friday that left three friendly Afghan fighters dead from coalition fire, a U.S. Army spokesman said.

A team of experts from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration have joined investigators in Taiwan trying to find the cause of last weekend's crash of a China Airlines 747 that killed 225 people.

The United States offered a reward of up to $5 million Wednesday for the arrest or conviction of five leaders of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group who kidnapped three Americans last year, killing one of them.

Evacuation plans for thousands of U.S. citizens in Pakistan and India are being evaluated by U.S. military officials and officials with the U.S. embassies there, in preparation for possible conflict between those two countries, a Pentagon official and a State Department official said Thursday.

The black box flight recorders that could hold the secret to why a China Airlines plane plunged into the Taiwan Strait with 225 people on board are lying in 60-70 meters of water, with bad weather putting them out of reach of divers.

Human rights groups have over the years leveled a litany of complaints against Malaysia's autocratic ruler of 20 years, Dr Mahathir Mohamad.