Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's condition has "improved slightly" after his latest operation for cancer in Cuba, a statement says.

US actor Jack Klugman, who starred in the 1970s hit TV series The Odd Couple and Quincy M.E., dies at the age of 90.

Wildlife campaign groups are at odds over a new attempt to ban the global trade in polar bear parts

A policeman who was injured during violent protests over the gang rape of a woman in the Indian capital Delhi dies in hospital.

Pakistan is set to to play its first cricket series in India for five years amid tight security, beginning with a T20 game in Bangalore.

A plane carrying more than 60 passengers, including many foreigners, crash lands in Burma, killing a young child and a motorcyclist.

A Chinese man has rammed his car into a group of schoolchildren and attempted to set off an explosion, state media say.

Residents of a Philippine shanty town brawl with firefighters and beat one person to death, as a Christmas day blaze left hundreds homeless.