PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - PAKISTAN said on Friday an air and ground offensive to crush the Taleban in the northwest killed more than 140 militants in an escalating conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands.
BEIJING - AN INVASION of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday.
TOKYO - HAVING children is not a duty, but should be seen as fun, Japan's minister in charge of tackling the dwindling birth rate said on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Taro Aso said he had 'done his duty' by raising two children.
