Pakistani state media reports say the new US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan is in Islamabad for his first meetings since taking the position previously held by the late Richard Holbrooke.
Chinese computer hackers last June gained access to secret South Korean military files on a planned spy plane purchase from the United States, a Seoul lawmaker says.
A roadside bomb targeting a US military convoy exploded near a civilian bus in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, killing six people and wounding a dozen others, a provincial official said.
Nobel laureate Mohammed Younus, a celebrated pioneer of micro-finance was on Wednesday forced out from the Grameen Bank, he founded nearly three decades ago, amid a growing spat with the Bangladesh government, officials said.
Pakistani law enforcement agencies have arrested a "high-profile terrorist" who wanted to hit targets in the federal capital with rockets fired from the Margallah Hills, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said today.
Taliban fighters shot dead four tribesmen they accused of spying for the US in the volatile North Waziristan region of northwest Pakistan, officials said today.
Seven foreign militants were killed as the US carried out the first drone strike in Pakistan's restive tribal belt since an American official was arrested last month for gunning down two men in Lahore, officials said today.
All five people on a test flight were killed in Indonesia today when their small plane crashed having changed one of its engines, a transportation ministry spokesman said.
Bangladesh's main opposition party, emboldened by its success at municipal polls and public anger at high inflation, called for a strike on Monday to demand early parliamentary elections to force the ruling party from power.
The death toll from heavy rains in the southern Philippines over the past week has risen to eight, authorities said today.
The days of R&R on Thailand's famous Pattaya beach could be numbered.
Indonesian police say they have arrested three people in connection with a ferry fire last week that killed 27 people.
The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the spiritual home of the Taliban, was killed in a suicide car bomb attack on Saturday, local authorities said.
World powers on Saturday failed to persuade Iran to take steps to ease suspicions over its nuclear programme as the defiant Islamic republic insisted on uranium enrichment.
US Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the US should make sure Iraq's stability and democracy are strong enough to make it "a country that was worthy of the sacrifices" the American military suffered during eight years of war.