Three men accused of travelling to Pakistan for terrorism training, including a British Muslim convert, appeared in court today.

Tributes were paid to a British couple murdered in Pakistan in a suspected “honour killing” over an arranged marriage.

Helicopters dropped food to almost two million marooned villagers in India today as the death toll from unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods in South Asia crossed 200, officials said.

A SCHOOL adviser who worked closely with police was jailed for life yesterday for torturing and killing his baby because he thought she was possessed.

A Muslim girl today won her battle to wear traditional “head-to-toe” dress in the classroom after the Court of Appeal in England ruled her school had acted unlawfully in barring her.

OVERCROWDING may have caused the death of 600 people who were missing and feared dead yesterday after a river ferry capsized in southern Bangladesh.

AT least 30 women and children were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede when thousands of poor people scrambled for clothes being handed out in a northern Bangladesh town yesterday, police said.

Overnight mortar shelling between Indian and Pakistani troops had border villagers convinced today that war is coming.