Blast at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kills 2
A police official says a blast at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has killed two people. Sindh province police spokesman Imran Shakat said the ...
Rare countrywide power blackout hits Pakistan
A rare countrywide blackout has left Pakistan without electricity for almost two hours overnight. The authorities blamed technical problems for the ...

Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims
Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold ...

AP PHOTOS: Portraits of Pakistani Taliban victims
In recent weeks, the Pakistani government and Taliban forces fighting in northwestern tribal areas have expressed an interest in peace talks to end ...
India's secret executions raise concerns
For 11 years the family of a convicted terrorist waited and wondered about his fate as he sat on death row. Two weeks ago they found out — from ...
Adolf Hitler stumping for votes in Indian election
Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein. The tiny northeast Indian state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for ...
AP will not cover Australia tour of India
The Associated Press has suspended coverage of Australia's cricket tour of India, starting with Friday's first test in Chennai. The dispute has arisen ...

Indian police search for evidence in bomb attack
Indian police are investigating whether a shadowy Islamic militant group was responsible for a dual bomb attack that killed 16 people outside a movie ...

2 killed as Bangladesh police, protesters clash
Police in Bangladesh clashed Friday with protesters from Islamic political parties denouncing war crimes trials linked to the country's 1971 ...

Pakistan arrests former head of banned Sunni group
Authorities on Friday arrested a founder of a banned Sunni extremist group from a town in central Pakistan, less than a week after the organization ...

Rape and killing of 3 young sisters shocks India
Police were searching villages in western India on Friday for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters, as Indians still angry over the ...
India: Accused Italian marines can go home to vote
India's Supreme Court will allow two Italian marines awaiting trial in the deaths of a pair of fishermen off India's coast last year to go home to ...

Twin bombings kill 14, wound more in south India
A day after two bicycle bombs killed 14 people and wounded more than 100, investigators into India's worst bombing in more than a year searched Friday ...

Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan
Many of the fashions displayed on the Milan runway Thursday had a yesteryear appeal — but with a contemporary edge. Coats are a mainstay for next ...

3 British men convicted in terrorist bomb plot
They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck. On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ...

Just Cavalli thinks ethnic for women next winter
Designer Roberto Cavalli drew inspiration for his second line "Just Cavalli" collection, from a recent trip to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, at the ...
Iran plans to build oil refinery in Pakistan
An Iranian semi-official news agency says Iran is planning to build an oil refinery in Pakistan. The plan is part of Iran's effort to decrease ...

Freed Afghan Taliban fighters return to insurgency
At least half the Afghan Taliban recently freed from Pakistani prisons have rejoined the insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official says, throwing ...
Police: Bomb blast at Pakistani mall kills 1
Pakistani police say a bomb blast inside a shopping mall in the country's northwest has killed at least one person and wounded 12 people.

British premier lays wreath at India massacre site
Britain's prime minister laid a mourning wreath Wednesday at the site of a notorious 1919 massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces, ...
Vodafone asks India court to halt spectrum auction
Vodafone has petitioned an Indian court to stop the government from auctioning off rights to the cellphone spectrum it now uses for 18.7 million ...