Afghan authorities said Sunday that almost 100 Taliban-linked rebels were taken out of action, killed, captured or wounded, in a day of operations by Afghan forces helped by their Nato allies. The casualties were inflicted in multiple operations across the troubled country at the weekend, said the ...

North Korea said Friday its satellite had failed to enter its preset orbit, as the launch sparked international condemnation."The earth observation satellite failed to enter its preset orbit. Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure," the North's official news agency said....

Washington said Thursday it seeks enduring and well-defined relations with Islamabad after Pakistan's parliament backed new guidelines on ties which ban the transport of arms across its soil to Afghanistan....

Giant quakes off Indonesia caused panic but little damage, in a successful test of warning systems and evacuation plans introduced after the catastrophic 2004 Asian tsunami, experts said Thursday....

Plans to rescue nine copper miners trapped in a caved-in shaft in southern Peru suffered a setback that could delay their release until Wednesday, Mining and Energy Minister Jorge Merino said....

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged nuclear-armed North Korea not to go ahead with its planned rocket launch if it wants a "peaceful, better future" for its people....

India, responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s statement on Hafiz Saeed, said that ‘solid evidence’ on the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder and alleged 26/11 mastermind has already been given to Pakistan, CNN-IBN reported on Monday....

The Iranian navy has freed 28 Chinese crew members less than a day after their cargo ship was hijacked by Somali pirates  off the Islamic republic's south coast, Chinese state media said Saturday....

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be allowed to launch military strikes against Iran, in a poem that one German newspaper branded "anti-Semitic"....

The United States said Wednesday it wanted the founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba to be prosecuted and jailed after he openly goadedWashington with a press conference in Pakistan....