Pakistan's leading state prosecutor investigating cases including the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead in Islamabad.
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Police in Nepal are investigating an alleged fight between two famous European climbers and their Nepalese mountain guides on Mount Everest.
Angry crowds demonstrate in India's capital New Delhi after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped, tortured and kept in captivity for 40 hours.
A British tourist murdered on a houseboat in India is named as 24-year-old Sarah Groves.
MPs have warned that Pakistan gets a lot of British cash, but doesn't collect enough from its own citizens. Are they right?
In a victory for health campaigners against big pharmaceuticals, India's supreme court rules that pharmaceutical giant Novartis cannot patent an updated version of a cancer drug.
A Swiss female tourist is gang-raped in rural central India, according to police, the latest victim of sexual violence against women in the country.
The driver of the bus in which a young Indian woman was gang-raped and fatally injured is found hanging in his jail cell, but his family and lawyer said they suspect "foul play".
India's major cities have been put on a state of high alert after two blasts shook the southern city of Hyderabad, killing at least a dozen people and injuring many more.
Money from the UK's official aid budget could be used to fund military operations to stabilise war-torn states says David Cameron. And aid agencies agree - up to a point.
