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The Sri Lankan army captures Elephant Pass, the key link to the Jaffna peninsula, President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. |
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Al-Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan and another top aide are believed to have been killed, US intelligence sources say. |
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A call handler for UK firm BT in India is disciplined after he sent amorous text and voicemail messages to a customer. |
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At least 40 people are killed when fire engulfs homes in a shanty town in the Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. |
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Six people, including a top police official, die in a suicide bombing at a market in south-west Afghanistan, officials say. |
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India's main share index falls to a one-month low on fears that an accounting scandal may prompt foreign investors to withdraw funds. |
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The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper often critical of the government is shot dead in the capital, Colombo. |
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Satyam faces an investigation and sees its stock suspended after its boss quit over an accounting scandal. |
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, sentenced to jail for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, may stand in India's election. |
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Slumdog Millionaire dominates the Critics' Choice Awards, winning five prizes at the ceremony in California. |
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Shoaib Akhtar is given a chance to revive his international career after being given a central contract by the Pakistan Cricket Board. |
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Sri Lankan media freedom hit again in new murder |
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Investors fear repercussions of IT firm fraud |
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Bollywood's light-hearted goodbye to Bush |
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Bodies, beatings and mistrust in Taleban stronghold |
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Indian and world press shocked by Satyam scandal |
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Facing the cold is a heated issue in Afghanistan |
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India has been holding initial talks with the US over the purchase of its missile defence shield, a UK newspaper says. |
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Sri Lankan troops say they have taken more territory from Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula. |
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A strike by oil workers on top of one by transport operators is affecting fuel supplies and the price of goods. |
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India accuses Islamabad of "consistent flip-flop" after confirmation that Mumbai gunman Ajmal Qasab is Pakistani. |
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Taleban militants in Pakistan's tribal region free 13 elders they took hostage three days ago, a spokesman for the militants says. |
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The family of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim are accused of removing her foetus using a razor without anaesthetic. |
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Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients. |
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Coalition forces say they have killed about 50 insurgents in Afghanistan, amid reports of dozens of civilian casualties. |
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Islamabad removes its national security adviser hours after confirming the surviving Mumbai gunman is a Pakistani. |
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Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda cancels the appointment of two top priests at the country's holiest Hindu temple after days of protests. |
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Suspected Taleban militants kill three policemen and kidnap three others in north-western Pakistan, officials say. |
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The boss of Satyam, India's fourth-biggest software firm, resigns after admitting to irregularities in its accounts. |
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Efforts by the security forces to remove militants surrounded in a remote area of Indian-administered Kashmir enter an eighth day. |
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Millions of trucks in India are off the roads in an indefinite strike, with operators demanding a lowering of diesel prices. |
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Indian authorities unveil a fresh economic stimulus package, including another cut in the country's main interest rate. |
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Inside the ruined remains of the Tamil Tiger HQ |
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Why all the aid has made little impact on Afghan daily life
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Ahmed Rashid says 2009 brings S Asia new challenges |
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A key town falls but Sri Lanka's war is not over |
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The pioneer promoting surfing in Bangladesh |
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Kashmir feels a sense of deja vu as 2009 dawns |
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India moustaches 'face the chop' |
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Mumbai tries to come to terms with its loss |
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Workers at two major Indian oil companies call off a strike, but the action continues at 10 other firms. |
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The options now for Sri Lanka's retreating rebels |
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Continuing suffering in India's flood-hit Bihar |
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is recalled to the Sri Lanka squad for the forthcoming three-match one-day series against Pakistan |
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England all-rounder Samit Patel is set to play in the Indian Premier League after being registered for February's player auction. |
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The Indian government sacks the entire board of the country's scandal hit software company Satyam. |
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Around 1,200 Afghan Shia Muslims donate their blood, instead of shedding it, during religious ceremonies for Ashura. |
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US hails technical expertise in killing al-Qaeda militants |
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Militants surrounded by the Indian army in a remote area of Indian-administered Kashmir may have escaped, the military says. |
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An eight-year-old boy in India who specialises in animation for films begins teaching his skills to adults. |
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Renovation work on Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium is stopped with immediate effect by the Pakistan Cricket Board. |
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Nepal increases the length of daily power cuts to 16 hours starting on Sunday because of an electricity shortage. |
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The founder of scandal-hit Indian company Satyam is to be held in custody until 23 January, after he admitted falsifying accounts |
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US Vice-President elect Joe Biden meets Afghanistan's president to discuss the country's need for help in reconstruction. |
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The Indian government appoints three leading businessmen to the board of scandal-hit software firm Satyam. |
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Pakistani soldiers repulse an attack in a north-west tribal area, leaving six soldiers and 40 militants dead, army officials say. |
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Australian special forces kill a senior Taleban leader in Afghanistan, the Australian Defence Ministry says. |
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Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches Mumbai story about an improbable game show winner, scoops four Golden Globe awards. |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting India's PM in Delhi and is expected to express support after Mumbai. |
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Shares in Indian software firm Satyam jump 60% on hopes of a rescue plan for the scandal-hit firm. |
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Elton Chigumbura hits a fifty and takes a crucial wicket as Zimbabwe defeat Bangladesh by 38 runs in the first match of the tri-nations series. |
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Gordon Brown says he believes the British public will give Prince Harry the "benefit of the doubt" after he apologised for using racist language. |
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India's transport strike enters a second week, with some lorry drivers returning to work but many supplies still affected. |
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Thousands attend the funeral of a Sri Lankan newspaper editor and fierce government critic who was shot dead last week. |
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Nuwan Kulasekara and Ajantha Mendis take three wickets each as Sri Lanka demolish Zimbabwe by 130 runs in Mirpur. |
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Children learn to love an e-library in Nepal |
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Heightened fears for Maldives' lowering lands |
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The US imposes sanctions on people and companies linked to the disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan. |
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A young woman radio reporter is murdered by a group of men in her room in the southern Nepal city of Janakpur. |
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The UN says it urgently needs $500m to continue clearing landmines and other unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan. |
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English language taking hold in Afghanistan |
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Heavy fighting is reported around the sole remaining Tamil Tiger stronghold in Sri Lanka as the army presses its offensive. |
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UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband says Pakistan did not direct the Mumbai raids but must act against the attackers. |
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Suspected militants attack a Nato depot in north-west Pakistan, the first such raid since a major army offensive. |
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India will tour Sri Lanka in February to help recoup some of the $25m lost after the Mumbai attacks. |
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A number of separatist rebels from two states in the north-east of India are now surrendering and handing themselves over to the authorities, police say. |
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Quarterly profits at Indian outsourcing giant Infosys jump by a third and the firm says the accounting fraud at rival Satyam has had little impact. |
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India's National Security Guard (NSG) will march for the first time for Republic Day in recognition of its Mumbai role. |
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Thousands attend the funeral of Uma Singh, the Nepali journalist murdered in the southern city of Janakpur. |
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The Pakistan Cricket Board lost $40m after the cancellation of India's tour, PCB chairman Ijaz Butt says. |
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Sri Lanka's government accuses the opposition of trying to gain political advantage from the murder of a newspaper editor. |
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India says the scandal involving Satyam Computers will be probed by a federal office dealing with serious corporate fraud. |
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Bangladesh face Sri Lanka in a triangular series match in Mirpur. |
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Pakistan says a dossier offered by India as evidence linking the Mumbai attacks to elements in Pakistan is only "information". |
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The pursuit for the perfect film star body |
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The Bishop of Gloucester is refused entry to India because his visa does not permit him to preach. |
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India and Bangladesh are to hold their first ever joint military exercise, according to senior military officials. |
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Jaguar Land Rover announces it is cutting 450 jobs, including 300 managers. |
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Shakib Al Hasan hits an unbeaten 92 as Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in the one-day international tri-series in Mirpur. |
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A government-appointed board names new auditors for fraud-hit Indian IT firm Satyam, to replace PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
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India's Supreme Court allows Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, jailed and bailed over the 1993 Mumbai blasts, to travel abroad. |
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British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to meet India's Rahul Gandhi in what officials say is a get-together of "PMs in waiting". |
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Tribesmen in western Pakistan end their blockade of a key route supplying forces in Afghanistan, officials say. |
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The Maoist-led government of Nepal embarks on a six-month national literacy campaign intended to help millions. |
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Afghanistan's ambassador in the US says a US-backed plan to form local tribal groups to combat the insurgency is risky. |
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The last remaining strip of rebel-held land on the northern Jaffna peninsula is in the army's hands, the government says. |
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The head of the Indian army says it has noted Pakistan has moved troop to its border but there is no state of alert. |
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UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband
spent a night in a house belonging to an 'untouchable' in an Indian village. |
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan slams award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire for projecting India as the 'third world dirty underbelly'. |
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Leading Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha dies in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata) at the age of 84. |
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More than 60 militants die in fighting between government troops and militants in north western Pakistan, officials say. |
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Officials in Sri Lanka say at least two people, including a policeman have been killed in a bomb attack in the eastern town of Batticaloa. |
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Hamid Karzai accuses his foreign allies of not doing enough to reduce civilian deaths or cut opium production. |
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Two Afghan soldiers die in a suicide attack in western Afghanistan, the defence ministry says. |
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Thirteen schoolchildren and a teacher die when a vehicle carrying them collided with a truck in India, police says. |
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The US says a new supply route to Afghanistan has been agreed through Central Asia as an option to Pakistan. |
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A serving Indian army officer is among 11 people charged over a deadly bomb blast in a largely Muslim Indian town last year. |
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Sri Lanka's navy says it has destroyed four rebel boats off the north-east coast as the government denies reports of civilian deaths. |
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Nepal slaughters thousands of birds in the south-east to try to contain an outbreak of the deadly bird flu strain. |
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A top Indian artist says he was outraged to find many of his paintings at a show he was inaugurating were fakes. |
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Pakistan host Sri Lanka in Karachi in the second of three one-day internationals. |
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Latest score as Bangladesh face Zimbabwe in their second one-day international in Mirpur. |
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England players may get the chance to play in this year's Indian Premier League and not miss any Tests, BBC Sport understands. |
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Coping with mental disorder in Afghanistan |
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Agents exploit agony of boat people's relatives |
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Diary of a schoolgirl struggling for an education |
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Frustrating electricity supplies in Pakistan's capital |
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Why Nepal is turning its back on hydropower |
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Suspected Taleban militants kill six men in north-west Pakistan after accusing them of spying for the US, police say. |
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US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have killed 22 militants in clashes in the south and east of the country. |
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Taleban militants blow up five more schools in north-west Pakistan despite a government pledge to safeguard education. |
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India's media continue their assault on UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband after he urged a resolution to the Kashmir dispute. |
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Thailand investigates claims that Burmese migrants were sent to their death at sea, as Indian media report hundreds of deaths. |
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A gene mutation that almost guarantees the development of heart disease is carried by one in 25 South Asian people. |
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Russia says it is ready to help Afghanistan's defence sector by supplying equipment to the armed forces. |
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India's cabinet recommends direct rule in the eastern state of Jharkhand. |
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Wildlife wardens in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh hunt three tigers that have killed eight people since November. |
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Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole known surviving suspect from the attacks in Mumbai, is remanded for two more weeks. |
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At least 18 civilians are killed as Sri Lanka's military continues its offensive on Tamil Tiger rebels, medical staff say. |
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Nato's secretary general says Afghan government corruption is as much to blame as insurgents for instability. |
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UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband urges Pakistan to act more quickly against extremists in the wake of the Mumbai attacks. |
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Private schools in Pakistan's north-west Swat district close to comply with a Taleban edict banning girls' education. |
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The European Central Bank (ECB) cuts eurozone interest rates to 2% as it continues efforts to aid an economic recovery. |
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Shares of fraud-hit Satyam Computers in India slump by a third after a board member rules out accepting government money. |
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Boat survivor's accusations of Thai military treatment |
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The UK's foreign secretary glimpses Indian rural life |
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People across Sri Lanka give their views on the war |
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Olivia Lang on the climate change disaster awaiting the idyllic and pristine Maldives. |
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The pursuit for the perfect film star body |
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Children learn to love an e-library in Nepal |
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The options now for Sri Lanka's retreating rebels |
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Floods of last summer still afflict India's Bihar |
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US hails technical expertise in killing al-Qaeda militants |
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More than 60 militants die in fighting between government troops and militants in north western Pakistan, officials say. |
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Officials in Sri Lanka say at least two people, including a policeman have been killed in a bomb attack in the eastern town of Batticaloa. |
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Hamid Karzai accuses his foreign allies of not doing enough to reduce civilian deaths or cut opium production. |
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Two Afghan soldiers die in a suicide attack in western Afghanistan, the defence ministry says. |
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Thirteen schoolchildren and a teacher die when a vehicle carrying them collided with a truck in India, police says. |
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The US says a new supply route to Afghanistan has been agreed through Central Asia as an option to Pakistan. |
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A serving Indian army officer is among 11 people charged over a deadly bomb blast in a largely Muslim Indian town last year. |
