Partial Afghan election returns showed President Hamid Karzai extending his lead in last week's vote.
The rival Koreas reached a deal to resume from September reunions of families torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Fresh fighting has erupted between Myanmar government forces and an armed ethnic group in the remote northeast.
Afghan officials said they had delayed releasing further results from the nation's disputed presidential poll.
One out of four elderly shoplifters in the capital blamed their crime on loneliness, Japanese media quoted a police survey.
The Chinese regime said that it will consider a visit to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama as 'sabotage' to improving relations.
At least 12 Pakistani border police were killed in a bomb attack at the main crossing point into Afghanistan.
Taiwan has approved a visit by the Tibetan spiritual leader next week to comfort victims of a deadly typhoon.
Red Cross officials from North and South Korea discuss the plight of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Pakistani Taliban militants have for the first time confirmed that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed.