The UN has agreed to Sri Lanka's request to delay a long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed during Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war.

Dozens of protesters marched in Yangon Wednesday against a law giving voting rights to Myanmar's temporary citizens, including hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, as parliament's speaker referred the fiery issue to a constitutional tribunal.

Thailand's toppled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been banned from travelling overseas because graft charges carrying up to a decade in jail will be formally laid against her later this month, officials said yesterday.

The historic end of Baghdad's decade-old curfew was marred by more violence a day afterward -- highlighting the security challenges that still plague Iraq.

Yet another train derailed yesterday as alleged blockaders removed fishplates and clips from tracks in Mirsharai of Chittagong, leaving at least 10 people injured.

Does a journalist make a good Minister for Information? The question which might have been asked here in the past has now cropped up in Indonesia.

Police in Nepal have arrested a suspected Sri Lankan Tamil guerilla in connection with the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Press Trust of India

Eighteen Pakistani army personnel including a Captain . were killed at noon on Sunday when a lively shell exploded at a demolition side near Nowshera, some 30 km northwest of Peshwar, capital of Pakistan's , Northwest Frontier Province, reports Xinhua.

Pakistan denied on Sunday. it had suspended transit facilities to Indians and violated a bilateral visa agreement, Reuter reports from Islamabad.