Wednesday, 23 May 2012 07:45
Gunmen have opened fire on a political rally in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least nine people and sparking a riot.
Central/S. Asia

More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months in Afghanistan blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials have said.

Gunmen have opened fire on a political rally in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least nine people and sparking a riot.

Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, is set to step down from his post, according to the embassy in Kabul.

A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason, officials say.

More than one-third of malaria drugs used around the world, particularly in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, are either fake or bad quality, a new study has claimed.

At least 15 people have been killed and about 30 injured after a passenger train collided with a stationary goods train in southern India, a local railway official said.

Four climbers - from Germany, South Korea, China and Canada - have died returning from the summit of Mount Everest, tour agents and officials say, with one other mountaineer also missing.

Pakistan had blocked the micro-blogging website Twitter because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

Bangladesh has struck its first oil, in two gas fields in the northeastern Sylhet region, the chairman of the state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) has said.

Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's former army chief, has has been released from prison after President Mahinda Rajapaksa granted him a pardon to coincide with the third anniversary of the government's victory over Tamil separatists.

At least 21 people have died and scores of others have gone missing after flash floods triggered by torrential rains destroyed thousands of homes in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, officials have said.
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