Smash hit

Gender reassignment patients must wait a year

Concern at the number of patients having surgery results in a rule that candidates should cross-dress for a year

Sri Lanka's summit bid snubbed by Brown

The Prime Minister is against the country hosting Commonwealth leaders in 2011 because of campaign against the Tamil Tigers

India and Pakistan relations ‘better than feared’

Tension between India’s Hindus and Muslims is also low, despite a controversial report on the 1992 Babri Masjid Mosque riots

Mohamed ElBaradei hits ‘dead end’ with Iran

Head of International Atomic Energy Agency addresses member nations before vote on key resolution condemning Tehran regime

Bureaucrats lose Indian temple and monuments

India is to hire 10,000 attendants to protect its historical sites after monuments were built over or sold abroad

South Korea urged to apologise for massacre

Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms murders of 5,000 alleged left-wingers by police and army in 1950

India remembers Mumbai terror attacks

Prime Minister leads tributes to 166 victims of last year's violence as Mumbai police force parades new hardware

Son of clan boss charged with Philippines massacre

Andal Ampatuan Jnr charged over massacre of at least 57 journalists and activists as authorities pursue armed group

Philippines massacre suspect arrested

Andal Apatuan Jr was flown to Manila for questioning over the massacre of 57 people including relatives of a rival politician

Mayor is prime suspect in Philippines massacre

A third mass grave is uncovered in the Philippines, bringing the number killed in the country’s worst political massacre to 57

I was just a cog, says 'Comrade Duch'

Pol Pot's former prison chief could serve 40 years for 'unrelenting brutality' at S-21 jail where thousands of Cambodians died

Fears remain over security in Mumbai

There is little confidence in the authorities' ability to prevent another atrocity by the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group

The robots really are taking over

If Japanese engineers have their way, androids could replace nurses

Mumbai terror suspect set to face death penalty

Thousands take part in Nepal animal sacrifice

More than 500,000 beasts to be slaughtered over two days despite protests against the bloody Hindu ritual

Security clampdown in Thailand over riot fears

There is concern that Red Shirt supporters of the ousted Prime Minister will disrupt the King's birthday ceremonies

Two executed over milk that killed babies

Anger as former head of state-run dairy company gets life sentence for role in laced-milk scam that killed six babies

ANALYSIS: most lawless part of Philippines

The massacre on Mindanao is just the latest atrocity in an area where banditry has been part of life for centuries