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In a bid to put an end to forced marriages,Kyrgyzstanpresident Roza Otunbayeva has urged his people to stop making bride kidnapping acceptable. Ms Otunbayeva made the pledge at an event organised to mark the start of...

By Haider Ali. During the past weeks Fatah, the ostracised Hamas and an array of splinter groups that amalgamate into the key representatives of the Palestinian people struck an accord. After strenuous negotiations the two main...

93 people died during the cold wave that hit northernIndia. Many of the deaths took place in the states of Uttar Pradesh,Punjaband Haryana. Elderly people and the homeless were particularly hit. India’s Supreme Court ordered the...

Australian robber, who stabbed an Indian student to death in 2010, has been jailed for 13 years. The 17 year old, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to killing Nitin Garg in aMelbournepark in January 2010,...

An Afghan rape victim, who was jailed for adultery after the attack, declared that she may marry her attacker if he restores the family honour. Gulnaz was freed fromKabul’s Badam Bagh jail by President Karzai after...

The first train in the country travelled through the newly built station in the northern city ofMazar-i-Sharif, after a trail run from the border withUzbekistan. The Deputy Public Works Minsiter, Noor Gul Mangal told Dawn newspaper...

21 day old girl died in aWest Bengalhospital after a man, who was employed as a cleaner, drunkenly removed her oxygen mask. The incident took place on 17 December at theCalcuttaMedicalCollege, where the infant was born....

The Pakistani government plan to buy up to a million bales of cotton in a bid to stabilise cotton prices in the country. Prime Minister Syed Yousef Raza Gilani has asked the finance ministry to release...

93 people died during the cold wave that hit northern India. Many of the deaths took place in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Elderly people and the homeless were particularly hit. India’s Supreme...

Russia is adamant to ban a Hindu holy book from their country, claiming that the text promotes extremism. Indian MPs are outraged that the Bhagvad Gita could be banned from Russia. State prosecutors in Tomsk, Siberia...