1. Brown cloud 'costs lives and crops'

A brown cloud of soot and pollutants floating over Asia is killing thousands of people and damaging crops, the UN says.

14/11/2008

2. Bodies removed from Philippine ship

Recovery workers in the Philippines have begun to remove the bodies of hundreds of victims from a capsized ferry four months after it upturned in a heavy storm.

27/10/2008

3. Bush signs India nuclear deal

George Bush, the US president, has signed legislation to enact a US-India nuclear trade agreement, hailing the deal as cementing "the growing ties between the world's two largest democracies".

09/10/2008