Pakistani police say a group of men allegedly attempted to rape an anti-polio campaign worker in eastern Punjab province

Pakistani officials: Gunmen kill mother and daughter working for anti-polio campaign in southwestern city of Quetta

An official says a woman has died in a remote village in Nepal because of a tradition in which females are exiled from their homes and forced to live in huts during menstruation

The International Committee of the Red Cross says more than 1 million people in war-ravaged Yemen are believed to have been infected in a cholera outbreak that began last year

Officials in India's northeast are complaining that Chinese construction activity on the upper reaches of one of Asia's largest river that flows into India are likely turning the waters downstream turbid and unfit for human consumption

Supporters say a prominent Shiite cleric who lost his citizenship and remains under house arrest in Bahrain has returned home after undergoing surgery

Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been suspended for 12 months for using a weight loss product which contained a banned substance