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Barack Obama secured the long sought-after endorsement of former rival John Edwards, a gesture aimed at solidifying support for the party's likely presidential nominee as Hillary Clinton refuses to abandon her long-shot candidacy.

Journalists from south Asia working in the Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Sinhala sections of the BBC World Service in London have launched a campaign to protest against offshoring of programming to the Indian sub-continent.

The ASEAN group said it would lead an international "coalition of mercy" to provide assistance to cyclone-hit Myanmar.

A Chinese woman, eight months pregnant, was pulled to safety on Wednesday after spending 50 hours trapped under earthquake rubble.

More than 25,000 people remained buried by rubble after the massive earthquake that struck southwestern China, state media, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

The deadly serial blasts in Jaipur sparked strong global condemnation on Wednesday with countries like the US, Britain, Japan and Israel pledging support to India in its fight to stamp out the scourge of terrorism.

Former US President Bill Clinton was "bloody stupid" to go along with White House intern Monika Lewinski, the wife of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.

China has asked space agencies across the world including the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for help in obtaining quake-related satellite data, for aiding relief operations in the country.

As the world expressed outrage over the ghastly Jaipur bomb blasts, over 10,000 Argentinians have lit candles in Buenos Aires extending their solidarity with the victims.

China rushed more troops and air-dropped relief supplies in areas cut off near the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in southwest Sichuan province as the toll mounted to nearly 20,000 with thousands of people still buried, trapped or missing.

An Indian-origin management consultant who previously worked on London's transport system, has been appointed the director of Transport Policy by the new mayor, Boris Johnson.

The going was never easy for the first batch of 10 students that decided to study music at a Pakistani university.

Bangladesh's media organisations have asked the military-backed government to stop "interfering" in their functioning while demanding the withdrawal of the state of emergency imposed in 2007. "Different military and non-military agencies of the government are interfering with day-to-day activities of the media.

After weeks of being vilified for a crackdown on rioting in Tibet, China is suddenly at the receiving end of international sympathy and goodwill as it grapples with the aftermath of Monday's deadly earthquake.

Turkmenistan, warming up to outside contacts after decades of self-imposed isolation, will push ahead with ambitions to supply electricity to as far away as western Europe, state media reported on Wednesday.

The United Nations has warned that the Myanmar could face a "second catastrophe" unless its military junta allows more access to foreign aid agencies to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Malaysia's top court on Wednesday refused to free five ethnic Indian leaders detained indefinitely under a draconian security law, dashing hopes of the community which has been campaigning for their release.

Pakistan's government has agreed to let judges consider advice from Islamic scholars in court cases in parts of the volatile tribal regions of the northwest, officials said.

Football-sized tomotoes, carrot-sized chillies and pumpkins that look like huge round rocks are what Chinese are growing to make a 'rocket salad' that, they hope, would feed them and the hungry around the world.

The world's smallest one-man helicopter will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, its developer said.