More than a thousand Sri Lankans protested outside the British Embassy in Colombo today, accusing the British government of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels and burning an effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Four top Tamil Tiger officials, including the supreme leader’s eldest son, were killed in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone, the military said today.

A five-year-old Indian girl died after holy men advised a group to perform a torture ritual on her in the hope of finding treasure, it was reported today.

Two men have been stabbed to death in India’s western state of Gujarat as Hindu nationalists celebrated a landslide win in state elections.