A Singapore court has ruled that four people charged in an alleged plot to export bomb-making material to Iran can be extradited to the United States, the US Embassy said on Friday.
Indonesian volcano Mount Lokon erupted today morning followed by a roaring noise and spewing of thick grey ash up to two km, officials said.
A US-funded broadcaster is reporting that two Tibetan brothers on the run since taking part in anti-government protests have been shot dead in China's Sichuan province.
The wife and daughters of former Maldives' president Mohamed Nasheed have fled to Colombo as violence worsens, a presidential spokesman in Sri Lanka and a family member said today.
An Indian labourer, who was in a coma for several weeks following a road accident in Saudi Arabia, has died, according to the Indian mission in Jeddah.
A Chinese rock magazine has featured Mahatma Gandhi on its cover, complete with guitar-shaped glasses, fingers flashing the peace sign and Rolling Stones-like tongue sticking out.
Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
Syrian forces thrusting into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday killed at least 67 civilians, including three families slain in their homes by militiaman loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
India and China will continue to try and resolve nagging differences, including a festering border issue that led to a war in 1962, and will not let outstanding bilateral issues hamper increasing cooperation in other issues.
An Indonesian court has sentenced three Islamic militants to up to nine years in prison for their involvement in last year's suicide bombing at a mosque.
The new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed, denied seizing power on Wednesday, even as his predecessor accused him of involvement in a coup plot and called on him to resign.
Iraq executed 14 people on a single day this week, most of them al-Qaeda members, a senior justice ministry official said on Wednesday, bringing to at least 65 the number of executions so far this year.
To celebrate Chinese New Year last month, Dubai's swankiest hotel bathed its sail-shaped facade in red lighting accented with an image of a twisting golden dragon.
The Nobel peace laureate travelled for the first time in two decades to the Irrawaddy delta, Burma's rice bowl and the region most devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader of the Maldives, was a former political prisoner who rose from grassroots activism and journalism.
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed resigned on Tuesday after three weeks of opposition-led protests boiled over into a police mutiny.