Anti-government protesters Thursday defied a court order to end their occupation of the Thai prime minister's office compound in Bangkok, saying they had a right to remain and would stay until the country's leaders resign.
Thailand

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took his place Thursday as a member of Malaysia's Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple a government weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent.
Malaysia

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday condemned anti-Christian violence in India, where at least 11 people were killed in three days of violence as Christians clashed with Hindu mobs attacking churches, shops and homes.
India

Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years.
India

The skinny would-be kingpin and his fearless bike gang were seemingly everywhere.
India

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday.
India

Japan confirmed Wednesday a body found in Afghanistan was that of a Japanese aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint a ay earlier.
Japan

Security forces clashed with militants across Pakistan's wild tribal belt Wednesday, killing as many as 49 insurgents, officials said, one week after U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf resigned as president.
Pakistan

Indian authorities ordered police to shoot on sight and rushed in reinforcements to quell clashes that have left at least seven dead since the murder of a Hindu religious leader, an official said Wednesday.
India

Japan's Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes.
Japan