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At least one person has been killed and three people injured in an explosion in a suburb of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, a police spokesman has said.
09/10/2008
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At least 30 suspected smugglers have been arrested in a campaign against widespread smuggling under the border with the Gaza Strip, Egyptian security officials say.
09/10/2008
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Up to 18 people including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal, have been killed after a small aeroplane crashed while trying to land at an airport near Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials.
09/10/2008
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Egyptian police have blocked an opposition convoy carrying medical supplies to the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.
07/10/2008
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A suspected suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the house of a Pakistani MP, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 40, according to police.
06/10/2008
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At least 33 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their homes after local tribesmen and Bangladeshi settlers clashed in northeast India, police and hospital officials said.
06/10/2008
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Ahmed Abul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, has arrived in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad for a one-day surprise visit.
06/10/2008
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European leaders are gathering in Paris in an attempt to find a joint response to the the global financial crisis, despite deep divisions between major nations.
04/10/2008
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Five former Khmer Rouge soldiers have gone on trial in the Cambodian capital, accused of kidnapping and murdering a British mine-clearing expert and his Cambodian colleague 12 years ago.
03/10/2008
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European share markets have recorded modest gains in trading after the US senate approved an amended $700bn government bailout of Wall Street firms.
02/10/2008
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European Union observers have started patrols in Georgia to observe a ceasefire between Georgian and Russian forces, nearly two months after the two countries went to war.
01/10/2008
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A group of Italians who were among 19 people kidnapped in the Sahara have denied official accounts of them being rescued in a military operation.
01/10/2008
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Governments across Europe have continued to prop up the battered financial sector, with Dexia, the Belgian-French financial services group, receiving more than $9bn from the Belgian, French and Luxembourg treasuries.
30/09/2008
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European governments have announced a flurry of bank bail-outs - but the rescue deals have only heightened fears that the contagion from the US credit crisis has much further to run.
29/09/2008
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Ecuador's president has claimed a "historic victory" in a referendum on a new constitution, as exit polls showed 65 to 70 per cent of voters backing his vision of a "21st century socialism" for the Latin American nation.
29/09/2008
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