Christian leaders claimed the families were not given any notice before a commandant of the Khyber Rifles ordered the families to vacate their homes
Turkey granted the plane a permission to fly over its airspace only on condition it can search its cargo for possible military equipment.
Some 400,000 blind people live in Afghanistan, the health ministry said on Sunday.
Armed bandits descended on a village in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing 22 people, most of them shot dead as they were leaving prayers at a mosque, the state police commissioner said.
The case was adjourned because the judge of the Pakistani court hearing the case has been admitted to hospital.
It was not immediately clear how long residents would have to stay away from the area after experts were brought in early on Friday to defuse the bomb.
At least 20 people have died in Bangladesh after a powerful storm lashed the country, the authorities said Thursday.
The popular hit Gangnam Style by South Korean rapper PSY has been termed "vulgar", and the singer "pompous" by Chinese netizens.
Born in the Wolong nature reserve in Sichuan province in August 2010, "Taotao" is now two years old.
Pope Benedict XVI is marking the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, the church meetings he attended as a young priest that brought the Catholic Church into the modern world but whose meaning is still hotly debated.
Extremists imposing Islamic law in Mali's north are abusing human rights, particularly those of women, and paying families for children to become rebel fighters, a senior UN official said on Wednesday after returning from the country.
Experts detected a tomb made of stone blocks and measuring 1.8 metres tall and one metre wide containing the bones of a male individual.
WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are among those represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights at the hearing on Wednesday.
The bounty is being offered by Mir Farooq Hussini, the spokesman for an organisation representing about 450 religious schools in the Herat province.
The airline said on its official microblogging site that the planes were to take off from Lhasa and Nanchang
The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms
Suspected Muslim militants have shot dead 11 people in a single day of bloodshed in Thailand's insurgency-plagued deep south
Bomb blasts hit a security compound on the edge of Damascus overnight, in the latest attack by rebels against units loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
A pilot of a German airlines refused passage to six Russian wheelchair users heading to a seminar in Germany
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong performance in last week's debate helped him pull ahead of President Barack Obama, a Pew Research Center poll showed on Monday.
A news report says that Turkish jets have struck Kurdish rebel targets in two separate cross-border raids in northern Iraq
A half-naked rag picker in a Chinese city has been detained for attacking a woman on her face in a street and even biting a police officer's arm
Iran's parliament on Sunday abandoned its planned impeachment of a Cabinet minister over the free-fall of the country's currency, opting instead to look for more effective economic measures, like cutting spending.
South Korea has reached a landmark agreement with the United States to extend the range of Seoul's ballistic missiles by more than twice the current limit to counter the threat from North Korea.
Here is some good news for dieters! Scientists are developing injections comprising animal cells that could help you lose stubborn fat like double chins and spare tyres.
A North Korean soldier killed two of his officers before crossing the heavily mined border into South Korea on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry and media reports said.
The world's largest platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said it has fired 12,000 striking miners.
Iraqi officials say a double bombing near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad has killed five people, including four worshippers
A critically endangered turtle that somehow made it to Vietnam decades ago has been returned to its original home — Cambodia
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is alarmed by the escalating tensions along the Syrian-Turkish border and warned that the Syrian crisis may spill over into neighbouring countries.