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U.S. President George W. Bush has labeled as terrorist murders a suspected suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 14 people.

Kashmir presents two faces to the world: One is serene and breathtakingly beautiful, the other heartbreaking.

A $2 million payout to a Sydney man paralysed after diving into the surf at Bondi Beach has raised questions about the effectiveness of Australia's beach safety programs.

A British-led force of about 1,000 troops is battling a substantial force of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

Creams with mercury are unsafe. Heavy metals such as mercury can enter the body and stay on as a poison, affecting the bones, nervous tissue, and blood-forming system.

The simmering tensions between Pakistan and India over the disputed Kashmir region -- exacerbated by Pakistan's recent tests of short-range missiles -- could have an unintended effect on the hunt for accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and his followers.

Rescue crews searched Sunday for bodies and debris from the China Airlines passenger jet that crashed into the Taiwan Strait with 225 people on board.

Teams from Taiwan's air force and coast guard are searching for wreckage and bodies from a Hong Kong-bound China Airlines flight that crashed Saturday in the Taiwan Strait.

BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) - An oil tanker believed to have been taken by pirates en route from Singapore to Myanmar two months ago was found abandoned in the Gulf of Thailand, the Thai navy has said.

An earthquake with moderate intensity was measured Tuesday in the Pacific, 35 miles east of Hualien, Taiwan, and no major damage was reported.

At least 90 Maoist guerrillas have been killed in battles with security forces in western Nepal, the defence ministry said.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has received overwhelming support in a controversial nationwide referendum to remain as leader for another five years, officials say.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says his nation prefers peace but is ready, if necessary, to wage war with India in the disputed region of Kashmir.

Musharraf told British newspaper the Financial Times that he was a military man and while he did not want war, he was not scared of it either.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has called off a three-nation trip so he can personally oversee a national fight against terrorism, the government says.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to address his nation Monday evening on the tense standoff with India over recent cross-border attacks.

Eighteen Army medical personnel serving with the British forces in Afghanistan have been taken ill with a mysterious contagious illness.

Nepal's King Gyanendra has renewed emergency rule for another three months on the request of the prime minister, the Associated Press reports.

Nepal's government estimates its forces killed nearly 400 Maoist rebels in recent raids on two rebel training camps, a government official said Saturday.

Nepal's government has said that as many as 240 Maoist rebels were killed in a raid on two training camps in the western part of this Himalayan kingdom.

The ruling Nepalese Congress Party has suspended the prime minister for trying to extend the country's state of emergency.

Aviation officials say there was no distress signal before a China Airlines passenger jet apparently broke apart in mid-flight.

A noodle chef in northern China has broken his own world record, making 2,852 kilometers of noodles from just one kilogram of dough, Chinese state media has reported.

Pakistan has carried out its second ballistic missile test in as many days despite efforts by the international community to ease tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi.

Pakistan took steps to protect the capital of its portion of Kashmir from possible Indian airstrikes and moved more troops to its Indian frontier Friday amid growing fears of war between South Asia's nuclear rivals.

Pakistan has carried out a second short-range missile test in as many days, an action India called an attempt to cater to the whims and demands of Pakistan's domestic audience.

Pakistan has repeated assurances it will not initiate a conflict with India, but has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons should hostilities escalate.

Europe is irrelevant, throwing U.S. weight around in the Caribbean and Latin America is a given, and Americans who oppose him are confused and frustrated.

A Perth man has killed himself after apparently strapping explosives to his body and detonating them outside his home in a quiet residential street.

Popular Phoenix TV news anchorwoman Liu Hai-juo from Hong Kong is fighting for her life in a British hospital following a train crash last week.

Pakistan declared its test of a nuclear-capable missile a success Saturday, but a top U.S. official criticized Pakistan for conducting the test during its military standoff with India over Kashmir.

World leaders are urging continuing restraint as they await India's response to an address by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf warning the danger of war between the two neighbors is not yet over.

A Canadian-led operation has taken DNA samples from corpses in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region to determine if Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders died during heavy bombing by U.S. forces in December.

Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated further Sunday after Pakistan conducted its second short-range missile test in two days.

Thousands of South Korean workers have gone on strike in a move the government fears will hamper an economic recovery and damage the country's image in the lead up to the World Cup soccer finals.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is in India after arriving from Islamabad in a bid to find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute. He held a news conference with the Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh on Wednesday.

At least 14 people were killed -- 11 French nationals and three Pakistanis -- when an explosion ripped through a bus outside an upscale Karachi hotel in Pakistan early Wednesday, according to Pakistani and French authorities.

Newly freed from house arrest, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to do everything she can to bring democracy to her country.

The U.S. army said on Saturday that coalition warplanes had killed about 10 people in an operation against suspected al Qaeda and Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan.

The following is an excerpt from a letter sent to CNN by La Rose Blanche.

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The Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has begun his 10-day tour of Australia, greeting some 20,000 supporters in Melbourne.

As two nations united by history but divided by destiny, India and Pakistan are almost like two estranged siblings.

As two nations united by history but divided by destiny, India and Pakistan are almost like two estranged siblings.

East Timor's struggle for independence has been a long and bloody one. The following timeline charts the territory's recent history and the key events on the long path to nationhood:

A Canadian-led mission to find the remains of al Qaeda leaders in the mountainous Tora Bora region of Afghanistan ended Tuesday without uncovering whether the most notorious of all -- Osama bin Laden -- is dead.

India's prime minister has called on his troops to prepare for a decisive battle one day after the assassination of a Kashmiri activist.

British troops stricken with a mystery illness at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan are stable or improving, but medical officials still have not identified the illness or its cause.

Two bomb blasts early Wednesday evening in Karachi have wounded a dozen people, officials said.

Britain and the United States have issued advice to their nationals in India and Pakistan to consider leaving because of the threat of war between the two nations.