• US cancels Nepal travel warning
  The United States says it has canceled a warning issued against travel to Nepal earlier this year because of the improved political situation in the Himalayan nation.
• Pakistani president's medical trip fuels rumors
  President Asif Ali Zardari was having tests related to a heart condition in a Dubai hospital Wednesday but is expected to return to Pakistan within days, officials said, denying rumors that the embatt
• Pakistan president has not offered to resign: PM
  Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has not suffered a stroke nor offered to resign, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the BBC Sunday following rumours the unpopular head of state would step dow
• Bank of Canada holds rates, cites deeper euro crisis
  OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada kept its overnight interest rate at 1 percent on Tuesday, as expected, and gave no suggestion of an impending rate cut even though its view of the European debt c
• Gov't lawsuits imperil Myanmar's new press freedom
  The media in Myanmar have gained new freedoms but also face a new threat in the form of lawsuits filed against them by the government.