Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan feels there needs to be a "revolution" in the country's cricket to rid it of corruption, favoritism and nepotism.

High alert has been sounded on Monday across the Pakistani capital and security was beefed up in the diplomatic area, especially around the US embassy, following the killing of world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden.

The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will build a wall to defend it against future tsunamis, reports said on Monday, as public confidence slipped in the government's handling of the disaster.

Indonesian police want to question an Al Jazeera cameraman in connection with a foiled Good Friday church bombing, they said on Saturday.

Dropping a bombshell, former Sri Lanka skipper Hashan Tillakaratne has claimed that match-fixing is common in his country since 1992 and promised to reveal names of those involved, soon.

Indonesian's President on Thursday warned that the world's most populous Muslim-majority country was confronting a rising tide of Islamic radicalism, after a spate of hate crimes and bombings.

A Bahraini military court sentenced four Shiite protesters to death and three to life in prison on Thursday over the killing of two policemen at a crackdown on a pro-democracy rally last month, state media said.

Seoul urged Pyongyang on Wednesday to discuss the fate of hundreds of South Koreans said to be detained in North Korea, in response to its neighbour's repeated demand for the return of four defectors.

A general strike called by ethnic minority groups demanding improved rights under Nepal’s new constitution brought the capital Kathmandu and several other cities to a halt on Wednesday.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will on Wednesday appear before a parliamentary committee examining whether to retain or remove Islamic religious references in the country's constitution.