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Blackberry-maker Research in Motion offers to work with India to support the country's need for "lawful access" to encrypted services.

Investigators from Pakistan are flying to London to examine allegations that some of its cricketers were involved in a betting scam.

Former Pakistan captain has said that if betting scam allegations are true, they would be 'the biggest blow to Pakistan cricket'

Getting help to Pakistan's north-west before winter

Clashes take place in Indian-administered Kashmir after a relative of a senior separatist leader is injured in police firing.

Emergency officials in Pakistan say water levels in flood-stricken southern Pakistan are beginning to recede, but warn the danger is not over.

The man at the centre of cricket betting scam allegations about the Pakistan team has been bailed without charge, UK police say.

At least four policemen are killed during a prolonged gunbattle with Maoist rebels in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police say.

The Canadian owners of Blackberry, Research in Motion, have offered an olive branch to the Indian government in the bitter battle over e-mail secrecy.

An international review of the "processes and procedures" used by the UN's climate science panel is set to deliver its report on Monday.

Three Pakistan cricket players are questioned by UK police over allegations they were involved in a betting scam, the team manager confirms.

Rebuilding bridges key to post-floods survival in Swat

In Pakistan there are continued calls for urgent aid as the UN says more than 70-thousand children are at risk of dying from waterborne disease and malnutrition

Police find the bodies of five election workers in Afghanistan's Herat province, after they were kidnapped by Taliban insurgents.

Police question a man over an alleged cricket betting scam during the current Pakistan-England Test, with claims Pakistan players were paid to bowl no-balls.

Floodwater submerges another town in southern Pakistan as officials race against time to repair levees around the threatened city of Thatta.

Officials race to save the town of Thatta in Pakistan, where the raging Indus river has breached more flood defences.

A Tillakaratne Dilshan hundred inspires Sri Lanka to a 74-run over India in the Triangular Series final in Dambulla.

Nato-led forces repel attacks by Taliban insurgents on two coalition bases in eastern Afghanistan, killing 18 militants and capturing others, officials say.

The US octogenarian whose word is final for Himalayan climbers