Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

Incoming International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that the sanctity of Test cricket would remain, despite the frenzied grab for Twenty20 dollars, it was reported by the media here...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has confirmed his availability for the West Indies cricket tour, but he will miss the first Test starting next week, it was reported by the media here...

China has approached Australian companies to team up for a billion-dollar share raid on giant miner BHP Billiton, news reports said...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority today dispatched a C-130 flight containing relief goods for the quake-affected people of China....

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his party boss Asif Ali Zardari today visited ISI headquarters where they were reportedly briefed about security issues the country was...

Lahore, May 16 : Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif had a sigh of relief last evening when the country's Election Commission accepted their nomination papers for the June 18 by-polls. Interestingly, the same Election Commission had rejected the duo's nomination papers ahead of the February 18 general elections, saying that they were involved in different...

Washington, May 15 : The United States has toughened its stance on a proposed agreement with the militants in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas, saying that "any deal Pakistan reaches with them should be worth more than the paper it is written...

Kuala Lumpur, May 16 : The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is unhappy with the low percentage of Public Service Department overseas scholarships allocated to Indian students....

New Delhi, May 16 : People of all religious groups organised a prayer meet, seeking solace for the victims who died in Myanmar cyclone, in Chinese earthquake and in Jaipur serial...

Lahore, May 16 : Pakistan Presidency has finalised its proposals for the re-appointment of all sacked judges minus former Chief Justice Iftikhar...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari have decided that PPP will not bring new ministers in place of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ministers, who resigned due to differences over the framework of the restoration of the sacked...

Agartala, May 15 : Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said that she would like to stay in Tripura when she returns to India if not allowed to stay in Kolkata, before the expiry of her Swedish visa in August....

(AP Photo/Binod Joshi)Tibetan exiles scuffle with Nepalese police officers during a protest against the Chinese government in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, May, 16, 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles...

Myanmar 's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid in the aftermath of this month's devastating cyclone.It was the first...

RANGOON, Burma (AP) — The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Burma's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering, two...

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying riot police in Sri Lanka's capital Friday, killing 10 people, including eight policemen, and wounding 85...

Colombo - Ten people, including eight police, were killed and 90 others injured in a bomb explosion when a suicide bomber drove a motorbike into a bus carrying police personnel in central Colombo,...

GENEVA (AP) - The international Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies...

BANGKOK — International relief agencies racing against the clock to bring food, medicine and supplies to thousands of Myanmar cyclone victims say a fresh storm headed toward the stricken region...

Eight police officers and two civilians have been killed in a suicide attack in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. More than 85 people have been injured and taken to hospital. Doctors are warning the...

Malaysia 's law minister said Friday.The revelation deals a major blow to the reputation of Malaysia's courts and bolsters allegations by many lawyers and opposition leade rs that judicial corruption...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan : Pakistani officials are making it increasingly clear that they have no interest in stopping cross-border attacks by militants into Afghanistan, prompting a new level of...

Police officers at the scene of the bank raid in the Philippines. Photograph: Reuters Bank employees were lined up and shot dead in an execution-style robbery carried out in the Philippines today,...

The United Nations reported that many of Burma's cyclone victims likely lack basic supplies. Top foreign aid officials continue to pressure the military government to let their organizations...

Behind the bonhomie, frustration with Burma's rulers is mounting. They have shocked the world with their callous response to the worst natural disaster in the country's modern history, a cyclone that...

Bangkok/Yangon - The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis has increased to 43,318, Myanmar state-run media reported, but relief organizations said Friday the number of dead could be much higher....

A suicide bomber targeted a bus full of police officers in Sri Lanka on Friday, killing at least six officers and wounding 50 other people, a military spokesman said. Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said...

and Syria will be peaceful nations, with today's oppression a distant memory ..." He went on: "From Cairo to Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, people will live in free and independent ...

By Craig Meer and Vincent Shie Republican candidate for US president Senator John McCain took aim on May 12 at China and other industrializing nations on the issue of climate change: "No ...

times 12 months to annualize that kind of inflation, completely ignoring the compounding effect, as I am sure that the answer would be very, very, very upsetting to a guy who fears inflation the...

Blast At least seven persons have been killed and more than 75 others injured in a massive blast in Colombo a short while ago. The incident occurred at Fort area, commercial hub of Sri Lankan...

SINGAPORE -- Most Asian currencies rose against a broadly weaker US dollar on Friday as rising share prices fuelled expectations that appetite for risky assets would pick up after a recent sell-off....

Other markets in the region including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore rose, but were off their highs, while South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines were little changed. China also reversed gains on...

THEY are hungry, grief-stricken and their homes are in ruins, but Burma's cyclone-battered citizens are going to heroic lengths to help their devastated communities, aid workers say. Frustrated...

In Pakistan, a dark trade comes to light By William Sparrow BANGKOK - Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping...

MANILA: Police say eight people, most of them bank employees, have been shot dead during a bank robbery in a town south of Manila. Police Gen. Ricardo Padilla says the victims were found...

The Associated Press May 16, 2008 - 8:14 a.m. HONG KONG - Asian markets were narrowly mixed Friday, as Hong Kong stocks rose but Tokyo shares fell after a four-day rally as traders sold off recent...

ILOILO, Philippines -- Two people were washed away by floodwaters and thousands are still in evacuation centers in the central Philippines after days of heavy rains pounded the area, officials said...

About 19 million children under five years of age were given a dose of vitamin A at more than 144,000 outreach centres across the country on 10 May...

has approached an Australian fund to partner in a multibillion-dollar attempt to buy a 9% stake in the mining giant. The rest of the region was broadly higher after an overnight advance on Wall ...

Manila - Nine bank employees were killed Friday by gunshots to the head in a bank heist just outside the Philippine capital, a regional police chief said. The suspects were inside the bank and killed...

Myanmar 's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people...

stoking "sectarian tensions" in that country. It is extremely rare for Saudi diplomacy to blatantly use the weapon of sectarianism against Shi'ite Iran and to draw a line of divide between the ...

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Police probing bombings in western India that killed 61 people said on Friday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards Indian Islamists backed by a Bangladeshi...

UNB, DhakaThe United States government is going to significantly increase fund and assistance for democracy and governance in Bangladesh in the year 2009. This was conveyed to the Congress by US...

SINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) - Southeast Asia's largest phone company Singapore Telecom Limited said on Friday it has awarded a S$220 million ($161 million) contract to Ericsson Telecommunications...

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met here Friday with visiting Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yong-Boon Yeo, expressing appreciation for Singapore's aid for earthquake victims. Yeo, on behalf...

At least nine people were killed and 90 wounded on Friday in a Tamil Tiger suicide attack against a police bus in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, officials said.Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya...

UNB, DhakaUS Ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty Thursday expressed the hope that general elections in Bangladesh would be held in such a way that all political parties could participate.Talking to...