Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistan police say they had found no evidence that young Christian girl Rimsha Masih had committed blasphemy by desecrating pages of a religious text.
Islamabad: Pakistanis grapple with the fallout of the violence that engulfed the country during protests against an anti-Islam film, resulting in the death of at least 23 people and destruction of property worth billions of rupees in what is being described by the media as the day of "killer rage".
Sunday
New York: Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi describes Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru among her "greatest sources" of influence, as she encourages American students to read the works of India's Father of the Nation.
Abuja: A suicide car bomber strikes a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria's troubled Bauchi city today, leaving at least three people dead, including a woman and a child, and 48 others injured in a region plagued by violence unleashed by a Islamist militant group.
Monday
Islamabad: Pakistan's Election Commission announces it would take legal action against 12 lawmakers, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, with dual nationalities for submitting false declarations about their citizenship during the 2008 polls.
Beijing: Decks have been cleared for the trial of disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai, as his former police chief was today sentenced to 15 years in jail for attempting to defect to the US and other crimes, ahead of a generational power transfer in the ruling Communist party.
Tuesday
New York: Intel Corp's India-born former MD Rajiv Goel, who was charged with giving inside corporate information to Raj Rajaratnam, has been spared jail time as he turned government witness and helped nail the Galleon founder in America's biggest insider trading scandal.
Islamabad: Under intense pressure to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan government submits before the Supreme Court the draft of a letter to be sent to Swiss authorities over the issue.
Wednesday
United Nations: Pakistan once again resorts to its old tactics of raking up Kashmir in the United Nations, President Asif Ali Zardari sought a solution to the issue under UN resolution, which India considers outdated.
Bandos Island (Maldives): India asks neighbouring countries not to be "selective" in fighting the "cancer" of terrorism that has impeded peace and security in South Asia.
Thursday
United Nations: India and Pakistan should find the trust and courage to resolve the differences, including Kashmir, to disarm the naysayers that have divided the entire region for the last few decades, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar says.
New York: India rebuts Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's remarks on Kashmir at the United Nations, asserting that the Kashmiri people have "peacefully chosen their destiny" in accordance with democratic practises.
Friday
Kathmandu: All 19 people, including seven Britons and five Chinese, aboard a small plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region, are killed when the aircraft crashed and burned after a bird hit as soon as it took off from the Nepalese capital.
Washington: A California man behind an anti-Islam film that sparks violent protests across the Muslim world has been jailed without bail by a US court for violating terms of his probation on a bank fraud conviction.
