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Save the Children’s foreign staff expelled from Pakistan
Save the Children's foreign staff have been ordered to leave Pakistan within two weeks, the aid agency confirms. Save the Children charity says it has...
Wang Lijun, ex-police chief involved in Bo Xilai scandal, charged with defection
Wang Lijun, former police chief at the centre of China's biggest political scandal for years, has been charged with a number of offences, Chinese...
Japan to buy disputed islands Senkaku
Japan’s government has reached a deal to buy disputed islands in the East China Sea from their private owner, local media reports. The government will...
McDonald’s opens its first vegetarian outlet in India
McDonald's is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India. The global chain, whose best-known product is the Big Mac burger...
China’s official Fang Daguo suspended over flight attendant attack
Fang Daguo, a Chinese official accused of beating a flight attendant, has been suspended from his post pending an investigation, Chinese state media say. Fang...
India Coalgate controversy: police raid mining firms for alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields
Indian police are carrying out raids across 10 cities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields. Police say they...
Sun Myung Moon, Moonies church founder, dies aged 92
Self-styled messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church became famous for marrying thousands of people in a single ceremony, has died, aged 92. Sun...
Pakistani Imam Khalid Chishti remanded in blasphemy case
Pakistani Imam Khalid Chishti has been remanded in custody, accused of planting pages of the Koran among burnt pages in the bag of a...
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Pirate Bay co-founder, arrested in Cambodia
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, co-founder of the popular file-sharing Pirate Bay website, has been arrested in Cambodia, the local police have announced. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was...
Philippines 7.9-magnitude earthquake triggers tsunami warning
A tsunami warning has been issued for the Philippines, Indonesia and Palau after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake offshore. The quake had a depth of 33 km...
Chinese dissident Wang Xiaoning released from jail after ten years
Chinese dissident Wang Xiaoning, who was convicted of subversion charges with the help of evidence provided by Yahoo, has been released from jail. Wang Xiaoning...
China signs $3.5 billion deal with Airbus
China has agreed to buy 50 planes worth $3.5 billion from Europe's Airbus. The agreement is part of a slew of trade deals signed by...
Mumbai attacker Mohammad Qasab’s death penalty upheld by India’s Supreme Court
India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on...
Virginity cream 18 Again sparks Indian debate
Indian pharmaceutical company Ultratech has launched what it claims is the country's first vagina tightening cream, saying it will make women feel "like a...
Typhoon Bolaven heads toward Okinawa and is expected to hit later on Sunday
Strong Typhoon Bolaven is heading toward the Japanese island of Okinawa. Slow-moving Typhoon Bolaven is expected to hit later on Sunday, with forecasters saying it...
China bridge collapses killing three people
A section of a multi-million dollar bridge in China that opened in November has collapsed, killing three people and injuring other five, state media...
Samsung and Apple banned in South Korea
A South Korean court has ruled that tech giants Apple and Samsung both infringed each other's patents on mobile devices. The court imposed a limited...
Did Gu Kailai use a body double in court?
When Gu Kailai was given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, speculation began that the woman in court...
Nguyen Duc Kien’s arrest in Vietnam triggers Asia Commercial Bank run
Depositors in Vietnam have withdrawn hundreds of millions of dollars from Asia Commercial Bank, one of the country's largest banks, after the arrest of...
Man bites snake to death in Nepal
Mohammed Salmodin, a Nepali farmer who was bitten by a cobra in his rice paddy field, has killed the snake by repeatedly biting it...
Jesse Robredo’s body recovered from plane crash in Philippine
The body of Jesse Robredo, Philippine Interior Secretary, has been recovered from the sea after a plane he was travelling in crashed. Jesse Robredo’s body...
Chinese beach-goers wear nylon masks to keep off blazing sun
Beach-goers in Qingdao, in China's north-eastern Shandong province, are donning slightly scary nylon masks to protect themselves when they take to the sand. The mask,...
Burma abolishes pre-publication censorship
Burma has decided to abolish pre-publication censorship of the country's media, the information ministry has announced. The Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD) said that...
Gu Kailai given suspended death sentence over Neil Heywood murder
Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu...
Typhoon Kai-Tak kills at least 27 people in Vietnam
Typhoon Kai-Tak has killed at least 27 people as it swept across northern provinces of Vietnam over the weekend, officials have said. Typhoon Kai-Tak made...
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