Thousands of women have gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad in support of one of the country’s most popular opposition parties, Press TV reports.

At least nine people have been killed in a bomb explosion at a market in Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab.

At least five Afghan soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

A small plane carrying 21 people, including three crew members, has crashed in a mountainous area in northern Nepal, killing 15 people on board.

US-led forces serving with the NATO military alliance in Afghanistan have fired eight mortar shells across the border into a village in North Waziristan tribal agency in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports.

At least 13 militants have been killed and four police officers injured in separate violent incidents in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports.

The commander of the US-led forces in Afghanistan has met with the Pakistani Army chief and the Afghan military chief for talks in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad.

In South Korea, thousands of media and non-media workers have taken part in a rally against what they call media censorship, demanding their right to freedom of expression, Press TV reports.

Members of the Afghan national police force have shot dead two British soldiers in the troubled Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.

China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to soon start negotiations on a trilateral free trade pact in the face of global economic downturn caused by the European credit crunch.

Unknown armed men have shot dead a member of the Afghan Peace Council in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.

A Pakistani police officer has been killed and 17 others injured in a violent bomb attack in the city of Peshawar in the country’s northwest.

Senior US commanders have held talks with Pakistan's army chief in the garrison town of Rawalpindi amid growing tensions between the two allies in the so-called war on terror, Press TV reports.

At least 40 people have lost their lives and 18 others remain missing after hail and torrential rains battered a mountainous county in China’s northwestern province of Gansu.

A Pakistani Air Force fighter jet has crashed in the south of the country, but the pilot ejected safely and there were no casualties on the ground.

An Air India Boeing 777 jumbo jet with 303 passengers and 17 crew members on board has been forced to make an emergency landing in the Romanian capital Bucharest due to a technical glitch.

Four policemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in Badghis province, which is located 555 kilometers (344 kilometers) northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul.

India is planning to buy 145 howitzer guns from the American defense contractor, BAE Systems Inc., to modernize its military, an official says.

At least three American exchange students have been killed and five others injured when their minivan crashed in New Zealand.

At least four US-led troops have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, as attacks against the United States and its Western allies have increased in the war-wracked country.

Two US-led troopers, serving with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance, have died in southern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

China has dismissed reports of military preparation in face of territorial disputes with the Philippines over South China Sea Shoal, amid rising tensions over a month-long row.

At least six people, including women and children have been killed in two separate violent incidents in the troubled region of northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports.

US-led forces have admitted that a number of Afghan civilians were killed in airstrikes conducted last week in southern and northwestern Afghanistan.

A US-led foreign soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, as attacks against the United States and its Western allies rise in the war-weary country.

Tens of people have been killed and more have gone missing following a flood that swept across a city in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Takhar, Press TV reports.

A powerful bomb explosion has rocked Jalalabad Airport in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, Press TV reports.

A man wearing an Afghan army uniform has opened fire on US-led foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan, killing one soldier, NATO has announced.

At least 24 people have been killed and 40 others injured after torrential rains struck the Minxian county in China's northwestern Gansu province.

Political experts say, should the Afghan parliament ratify the strategic cooperation agreement recently inked between the US and Afghanistan, the deal robs the Asian nation of its independence, Press TV reports.

At least three US soldiers have been wounded in a rocket attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, Press TV reports.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Afghanistan’s charge d’affaires in Tehran, Shah Mardanqol, to protest the recent Afghan media hype against the Iranian embassy in Kabul.

Pakistan’s military says it has successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane with 50 people on board is spotted in Indonesia a day after it went missing, Indonesian officials say.

A Pakistani rights organization has filed two petitions on behalf of the relatives of the victims of US assassination drone strikes in Pakistan's northwest, Press TV reports.

Successive bomb explosions have injured nine people, including journalists and policemen, in northwestern Pakistan.

The latest Russia-made passenger plane, which went missing on Wednesday during a demonstration flight in Indonesia, has not been found yet.

A South Korean court has sentenced a US trooper to six years in prison for raping a teenage South Korean girl last year.

A Romanian soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has died of injuries sustained in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, Romania’s Defense Ministry says.

At least 12 people including seven policemen have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, Press TVreports.