Afghan officials have put the death toll of a catastrophic landslide in the remote northeast of the country at more than 2,100.
Sri Lanka's Muslim legislators have asked President Mahinda Rajapakse to protect their minority community from "Buddhist extremist elements" blamed for a recent spate of hate attacks.
Opium production has reached high levels, showing signs of US failure in battling the problem despite spending billions of dollars.
China and Russia will carry out joint naval exercises in the East China Sea later this month, state media reported Thursday, with China and Japan embroiled in a territorial dispute in the area.
Three people have been killed and 79 others injured in an explosion at a railway station in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region, state media report.
A top Taliban military commander has stepped down from his post for health reasons in a major leadership shuffle in the insurgent movement, officials said Sunday.
Afghanistan announces the preliminary results of its landmark presidential election, as the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah emerges on top but not with enough votes to avoid a run-off poll.
Five US-led foreign troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
China's top legislature has passed a bill which will put eaters of rare wild animals in jail.
A Saudi prince has hunted some 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in a 21-day hunting trip in Chagai, Balochistan, a new report says.