Former Taliban official turned peace negotiator Arsala Rahmani was assassinated on May 13th in Kabul. His death strikes yet another blow to peace efforts in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Uighur exiles hold their biggest gathering in three years in Tokyo and make China see red. Finally, pop sensation Lady Gaga runs into trouble in Indonesia. Authorities say she can't perform there because her songs are too racy.
A Frenchman who lost his limbs successfully swam from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia on Thursday, the first part of his mission to swim between five continents. Philippe Croizon, 43, used prosthetics with flippers to make the 20-kilometre journey.
Aeroflot, Russia's main airline, said on Thursday it will continue flying its fleet of Superjet 100 planes, despite one of them crashing during an exhibition flight in Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people.
Helicopters have located the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet that went missing Wednesday night during a flight demonstration near Indonesia's Salak mountain with at least 47 people on board south of the capital, Jakarta.
The mystery surrounding the fall from grace of Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, deepens as his wife is suspected of murdering a British businessman. Next, fears of a Tsunami sent waves of panic around the rim of the Indian Ocean- has the trauma of 2004 meant safety lessons have been learnt? Finally, hitting the roads in India is a risky business, even more so without a helmet- we find out why many women choose not to don safety gear, illegally.
Three small tsunamis of up to 80 centimetres have struck the Indonesian coast following a massive 8.6 earthquake hit waters off the island of Sumatra, which triggered tsunami warnings across the Indian ocean.
The Indonesian embassy in Paris was not the target of a bomb blast, security officials said Thursday, citing closed circuit TV cameras that showed the homemade bomb was moved away from the building before it exploded early Wednesday morning.
A suspicious package was flagged moments before it exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in western Paris early on Wednesday, causing serious damage to surrounding buildings but no casualties, police said.
Issues of corruption and presidential immunity are plaguing Pakistan's civilian government, which is under pressure from both the military and the judiciary. President Sarkozy announces that France is suspending its military and training operations in Afghanistan following the fatal shooting of several French troops by an Afghan soldier. Finally, Indonesia takes drastic new action to stop dare-devils from hitching a free, if dangerous, train ride.
A 14-year-old Indonesian girl who was swept away in the devastating 2004 tsunami has been reunited with her family after seven years, her parents said Friday.
