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Thailand's prime minister is refusing to step down despite growing calls for his resignation.
13/10/2008
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The Turkish military has said that 31 suspected targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq have been hit in air raids.
11/10/2008
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Leaders of Thailand's anti-government movement have surrendered to police, vowing to hold further rallies despite the threat of prosecution.
10/10/2008
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Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister designate, has said power-sharing talks with Robert Mugabe, the country's president, have broken down and called for mediation efforts.
09/10/2008
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China's health ministry says that nearly 11,000 children are still in hospital after drinking toxic milk products.
09/10/2008
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Turkey's parliament has voted to extend the government's mandate to order strikes against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq, days after 17 soldiers died in an attack near the border.
09/10/2008
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Thai troops are patrolling Bangkok and police are guarding the prime minister's residence a day after violent clashes rocked the Thai capital, leaving two people dead and hundreds injured.
08/10/2008
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Thailand has deployed soldiers in the capital Bangkok to quell anti-government protests that left at least 278 people injured, some of them seriously, officials say.
07/10/2008
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The Nobel Prize in physics is to be shared by two Japanese citizens and an American, for discoveries that help explain the behaviour of the smallest particles of matter.
07/10/2008
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Turkish warplanes have bombed 21 bases belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) both inside the country and over the border in northern Iraq, the military has said.
07/10/2008
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Two earthquakes have struck Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and surrounding areas, leaving at least nine people dead, according to Chinese state media reports.
07/10/2008
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Thai police have arrested one of the leaders of the anti-government protests that have surrounded Bangkok's Government House for over a month.
05/10/2008
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Two US military Blackhawk helicopters have crashed over the Iraqi capital, the military says.
05/10/2008
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Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory's 1.5 million impoverished residents supplied with food and fuel.
04/10/2008
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At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish fighters in the southeast of Turkey, in one of the deadliest attacks by Kurdish fighters in recent years.
04/10/2008
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