WASHINGTON - US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton on Friday called on Pyongyang to free the two American journalists on trial for what it previously said were 'hostile acts' and illegally entering North Korea.
PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - A SUICIDE bomb ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 38 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest such attack in more than two months.
The bomb exploded at the mosque in an area which borders the district of Swat, where the military has focused its blistering air and ground assault against the Taleban.
TAIPEI - TAIWAN and the Chinese territory of Hong Kong have agreed to establish unofficial agencies to improve trade ties, the Taiwanese government said on Friday.
SRINAGAR (India) - THOUSANDS of Muslims defied a protest ban to demonstrate on Friday in the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar over the killing of two women that locals have blamed on Indian security forces.
