Islamabad, Sept 27 : After restoration of democracy in Pakistan, the country's new President Asif Ali Zardari is facing an arduous task, as compared to his predecessor - military dictator turned President Pervez Musharraf, in fighting out the extremists

Some Burmese had expressed hope that Cyclone Nargis would lead to the collapse of the military government. The cyclone, which hit Burma three months ago, devastated much of the country. More than 144,000 people are either dead or missing. Hundreds of thou

Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of an emotionally charged deal to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two soldiers declared earlier in the day to be dead.

Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.

CHAMPAIGN -- Nothing Derek Blumke saw during three Air Force tours in Afghanistan prepared him for college life. That was obvious to him during one of his first calls to the University of Michigan, when employees told him they couldn’t answer his questi