A suicide bomber targeted a church in Solo town at the close of services on the Indonesian island of Java on Sunday, injuring at least 20 people, officials said. Only the bomber has so far been confirmed killed in the blast.
A Buddha Air turboprop plane taking tourists to view the peaks of Mount Everest crashed in Nepal's Bisankunarayan village while trying to land in dense fog on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for peace Friday as mourners gathered in Kabul for the funeral of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the ex-president and head of the country's High Peace Council, whose assassination could lead to fresh chaos in Afghanistan.
Washington and Islamabad exchanged harsh words over the war against insurgents in Afghanistan after a top US military officer said Pakistan's spy agency was supporting militants in Afghanistan.
The most senior US military officer has accused Pakistan’s intelligence service of backing the Haqqani militant network that launched a brazen attack on the US embassy in Kabul last week.
Typhoon Roke killed six people on Wednesday when it struck northeastern Japan, disrupting public transport and battering the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant although the plant escaped further damage, its operators said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has joined world leaders in condemning the killing on Tuesday of top Afghan peacebroker and former president Burhanuddin Rabbani. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the death would not derail the peace process.
Burhanuddin Rabbani (pictured left), a former Afghan president, was killed in a suicide attack at his Kabul home on Tuesday. As head of the country’s High Peace Council, Rabbani was in charge of negotiations with the Taliban.
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's south-western proving of Baluchistan on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in what police are treating as a suspected sectarian attack.
At least eight people were killed Monday when a car bomb targeted Aslam Khan, a senior policeman in charge of counter-terrorism in Pakistan's financial capital. Unhurt in the attack, he said he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban.
