A woman accused of practising witchcraft in eastern India was tied to a tree and beaten by enraged villagers, police said today.

WHEN Devi, her husband and their five children woke up to a nightmare, they ran, as far and as fast as they could.

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

Flooding has worsened in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

Indian police have arrested the man they say gunned down India's Bandit Queen.

Supporters of assassinated Bandit Queen turned politician Phoolan Devi battled with police, threw crude bombs and burned buses as her body arrived for cremation in an Indian town.