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An Indian warship sank a Thai trawler in the Gulf of Aden last week after wrongly assuming it to be a Somali pirate "mother ship", an international maritime agency has said.
26/11/2008
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The mayor of one of the biggest cities in Russia's turbulent north Caucasus region has died after gunmen attacked him in the street, prosecutors said.
26/11/2008
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Tamil Tiger rebels are retreating from Kilinochchi, their political headquarters in northern Sri Lanka, a senior official has said.
26/11/2008
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Greenland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of increased autonomy from Denmark in a referendum.
26/11/2008
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Russian warships have sailed into a Venezuelan port in the first deployment of its kind in the Caribbean since the end of the Cold War.
26/11/2008
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Hundreds of anti-government protesters have stormed the Thai capital's international airport in their drive to oust the country's elected administration.
25/11/2008
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A Russian politician ordered the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist shot dead two years ago, according to details in an indictment, a defence lawyer has said.
25/11/2008
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Three people, including a child, have been killed after a car blew up in a suspected grenade blast near a metro station in St Petersburg, officials say.
25/11/2008
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The Afghan government has told foreign donors that a "huge humanitarian crisis" will materialise if food supplies do not rapidly reach the country.
25/11/2008
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The US military is transferring Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, from the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay to his home country of Yemen, The Washington Post has reported citing two government officials.
25/11/2008
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An influential Malaysian royal has stepped into a controversy involving a religious edict by the country's top Islamic body banning Muslims from practising yoga, a form of exercise rooted in Hinduism.
25/11/2008
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A US court has convicted a Muslim charity and five of its former leaders on 108 charges in the largest "terrorism" financing trial in US history.
25/11/2008
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Security forces in Guinea-Bissau are hunting for the suspected mastermind behind Sunday's attack on the residence of the country's president.
25/11/2008
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Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has said that his party could seek to amend the constitution to provide unlimited presidential rule.
25/11/2008
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Allies of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, have won a majority in state elections for governors and mayors.
24/11/2008
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