A defiant Iran said on Sunday it would build 10 new uranium enrichment plants as the United States warned the Islamic republic that time for it to meet international nuclear guidelines was running out.

Japan's prime minister on Sunday ordered his cabinet to work out measures aimed at coping with a 14-year high in the value of the yen and the decline in domestic share prices, press reports said.

The Bryan brothers captured the ATP World Tour Finals doubles crown with a straight sets win at London's O2 Arena on Sunday.

Workers at a nuclear power plant in southern India were treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation, senior government officials said Sunday.

Italy's Molinari brothers won the World Cup at Mission Hills by a single stroke Sunday after a thrilling tussle with Ireland and Sweden -- the first time the nation has lifted the trophy.

Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is willing to help the detained Thai engineer in Cambodia if the Thai government could not help him, Thaksin's legal adviser Noppadon Pattama said on Sunday.

Afghan border police said Sunday they had killed 27 Taliban-linked insurgents and captured a fighter from Chechnya in a fierce battle backed by coalition air support that lasted several hours.

Bangladeshi rescue workers on Sunday pulled more bodies from a capsized ferry as police said at least 37 people had died and warned that "scores" more corpses remained in the vessel.

More than 138,200 people in Mae Hong Son have suffered from severe cold weather. Seven districts have been declared as disaster-hit areas.

The economic ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the debt crisis in Dubai and the devaluation on Vietnam's dong currency, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in his weekly broadcast on Sunday.

The United Arab Emirates would ask fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to leave the country if he uses it as a base for attacking the Thai government, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya's assistant Panit Vikitset said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva thanked all sides for calling off their political rallies as His Majesty the King's birthday is nearing.

A flood at a coal mine in northeast China has trapped 16 workers, the government said Saturday, in the latest accident to strike China's notoriously dangerous mining sector.

A flood at a coal mine in northeast China has trapped 16 workers, the government said Saturday, in the latest accident to strike China's notoriously dangerous mining sector.

Taiwanese director Leon Dai's low budget family drama on Saturday swept the Golden Horse Film Awards, considered the Chinese-language "Oscars,'' bagging the best picture and best director gongs.

Iran will produce its own enriched uranium for a medical research reactor in Tehran if the UN atomic watchdog fails to provide the nuclear fuel, a senior hardline cleric said on Saturday.

A Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an "indecent'' knee-length skirt, her lawyer said on Saturday.

Rescue workers struggled to find survivors Saturday after at least 33 people died when a Bangladesh ferry overloaded with people returning home to celebrate a Muslim holiday capsized.

The diplomatic dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has been eased after the latter allowed the mum of jailed “Thai spy” to meet her son at Prey Sar prison, Democrat Party spokesman Buranat Samutrak said on Saturday.

At least 100 red-shirt members of the Rak Chiang Mai 51 group rallied against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in various main roads of the northern city.