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Prosecutors are seeking a second death sentence in relation to last October's Bali bombings, this time in the trial of the suspected mastermind of the attack that killed 202 people.

South Korea has fired warning shots at a boat from North Korea, according to the defense ministry in Seoul.

Thousands of Hindu nationalists, many wearing black bands over their mouths or on their arms, have marched in a silent protest in Mumbai over Monday's twin bomb blasts which killed at least 52 people.

A fierce all-night gunbattle between police and Muslim militants has ended in six deaths and the fiery destruction of the Srinagar hotel where the guerrillas were holed up.

The South Korean navy has fired warning shots in the direction of a North Korean patrol boat that crossed the disputed border off the western coastline of the divided peninsula.

Warlord Harold Keke, accused in the deaths of 50 villagers and hostages, has surrendered to an Australian-led peacekeepers trying to end a civil war in the Solomon Islands.

The leaders of Australia and New Zealand have met to discuss pouring more aid into the struggling South Pacific region to prevent it from becoming a haven for international criminals.

Many South Pacific states are not viable and must work together to ensure they avoid becoming terrorist havens, a U.N. representative has warned.

The most senior military figure to face trial for crimes against humanity in East Timor has been given a three-year jail term over the bloodshed during East Timor's independence vote.

Myanmar dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi is on a hunger strike to protest her three-month detention by the country's military government, the U.S. State Department says.

Thirteen people were killed and 68 injured in a fire at a residential building in the outskirts of Taipei on Sunday, police said.

Backed by U.S. warplanes and Special Operations troops, Afghan forces attacked Taliban fighters Monday in southeastern Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

Suspected Asian terrorist mastermind and al Qaeda pointman Hambali was planning to attack the U.S., Australian and Israeli embassies in Bangkok before he was arrested, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed.

The entire Thailand network of Asia's most wanted terrorist, Hambali, has been wiped out, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed Saturday.

Lasting only a few hours, the secretive espionage trial of a U.S.-based Chinese dissident ended Monday behind closed doors and without a verdict.

Chronology of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:

The two Koreas, still technically at war having never signed a peace treaty at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, have clashed several times over the western sea border in the past several years.

The man accused of being the mastermind behind last year's Bali nightclub bombings, last week's explosion at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta and possibly the September 11, 2001, attacks was captured in Southeast Asia, senior U.S. officials said Thursday.

After six nations completed talks in Beijing over the Korean nuclear crisis, the Bush administration harshly criticized North Korea and made clear that it doesn't intend to bargain for peace.

The United States has dismissed a declaration from North Korea that it would no longer deal with Undersecretary of State John Bolton as the U.S. chief negotiator.

The Bush administration is prepared to support incentives for North Korea if Pyongyang guarantees to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, two senior administration officials told CNN.

A U.S. military transport plane has crashed south of the capital Seoul, killing two people on board, American commanders say.

As the second day of talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions got underway, the United States ruled out the prospect of holding one-on-one meetings with Pyongyang.

U.S. forces in Afghanistan accidentally shot and killed two Pakistani soldiers and wounded another when they fired across the border into Pakistan's northwest frontier area, a Pakistani army spokesman said.

After a two-day debate marked by acrimonious exchanges between government and opposition deputies, the ruling coalition in India handily defeated a no-confidence motion in the country's lower house of parliament.

The heat being generated over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction has moved to Australia with a former senior intelligence officer accusing Canberra of exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime.