A spectacular jailbreak in June highlighted the Afghan government’s frailty and the security situation has only worsened since then.

A human rights report said that the air strikes last week were the deadliest case of civilian casualties caused by the U.S. in Afghanistan since 2001.

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators besieged government offices in Bangkok and briefly shut down a television station.

Three gunmen attacked the vehicle carrying the chief American diplomat in the northern city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning.

The United Nations said the tide of opium that has engulfed Afghanistan is showing signs of ebbing.

Six people were killed when Hindu and Christian groups clashed Tuesday in eastern India.

North Korea said that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities there, accusing the U.S. of not keeping its promise to take the country off a terrorism blacklist.

The country’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim easily defeated his opponent from the country’s ruling coalition, making a return to Parliament after a decade-long absence.

Before renovations began at Izumo Taisha, one of Japan’s oldest and most famous Shinto shrines, it opened to the public for the first time in six decades.

Fighting in the southern Philippines between government troops and Islamic separatists is growing, with the number of the displaced now reaching 300,000.

The remote state of Orissa has erupted in tit-for-tat slayings after the murder of a Hindu leader prompted a mob to burn small Christian churches and an orphanage.

Supporters of Bangladesh’s detained former prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, went on a rampage in Dhaka on Monday.

The police shot and killed four demonstrators who defied curfew to rally in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum.

About 40,000 protesters surrounded an Indian factory ready to produce the world’s cheapest car, saying that land for the site had forcibly been taken from local farmers.

President Macapagal Arroyo faces a difficult choice: salvage peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or abandon them and rely on force to combat the rebels.

Members of a high school sports team were among the 68 people killed in a passenger jet crash in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

Students for a Free Tibet said eight American men were placed on a Los Angeles-bound flight on Sunday evening, just as the closing ceremony was getting under way.

India’s three gold medals represent vastly different Indias that today exist side by side, and the intensity of the new aspirations of young Indians.

Marvel is teaming up with Madhouse, a Japanese animation studio, to create versions of its characters for four series that will premiere in spring 2010 in Japan.