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A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

An Indian court tells Vodafone it has to pay $2.6bn in tax for its takeover of Hutchison Telecom's Indian phone assets.

A 20-year-old fisherman from Papua New Guinea survives three weeks lost at sea by eating coconuts and collecting rain water.

The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.

Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.

The Malaysian capital has introduced a so-called "baby hatch" to try to save some of the hundreds of babies abandoned every year.

A diplomatic row between China and Japan intensifies after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

The Japanese finance minister says there could be market intervention as the yen hits a new 15-year high.

A powerful aftershock near the New Zealand city of Christchurch causes further damage and sends residents running into the streets, reports say.

Malaysia opens 'baby hatch' to save unwanted newborns

Afghan boys dressed in women's clothes and sexually abused

The National Basketball Association wants to expand the game and are looking at emerging markets such as India and China to push their products.

Can trade with China help the UK economy?

The US Afghan commander warns troops' lives will be at risk if a US church goes ahead with plans to burn the Koran, concerns echoed by the White House and Nato.

At least 16 people are killed as a car bomb explodes near a police base in north-west Pakistan, in the second deadly attack on police in as many days.

Suicides and depression cost Japan's economy $32bn last year, in a country which has one of the world's highest suicide rates, the government says.

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka paves the way for greater presidential powers to go before parliament without a referendum.

One of Britain's most prestigious think tanks calls for fundamental change to Western policy in Afghanistan.

Affluent but tiny Indian community hopes romance can stop decline

North Korea frees the crew of a South Korean fishing boat seized in waters east of the Korean peninsula a month ago.