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Saturday
Seoul: North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry says.
Lahore: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.
Sunday
Damascus: Syrian troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside.
Lahore: Nawaz Sharif's PML-N has secured majority in Pakistan's National Assembly after 18 independent candidates joined the party, allowing it to form government at the centre without striking an alliance with any other party.
Monday
Baghdad: A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq, officials say, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.
Lahore: Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif, known for being soft towards militant groups, say the Pakistani Taliban's offer of talks should be taken seriously because the problem of militancy cannot be solved through the use of power and bullets.
Islamabad: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was granted bail by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in connection with the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case, but the ex-president will remain under house arrest.
Tuesday
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a shakeup of senior security officers as violence killed 21 people, the latest in a wave of unrest that has cost more than 380 lives in May.
Houston: 24 people, including nine children, were killed when a monstrous tornado ripped through the US city of Oklahoma, flattening entire neighbourhoods, crushing two elementary schools and turning the area into a war-zone.
London: Mahatma Gandhi's personal effects and documents, including his prayer beads, blood sample, leather chappals and the iconic leader's last will and testament, went under the hammer today fetching a whopping 300,000 pounds.
Wednesday
Islamabad: Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif met President Asif Ali Zardari for the first time after the polls, as the PPP-leader remained non-committal about the party's support to his political rival.
Washington: India has sought access from the US to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana - both of whom were found guilty of supporting Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT and sentenced by a Chicago court.
Thursday
Washington: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America's second highest court.
London: Scotland Yard arrested two more people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of a soldier on a busy London street by two suspected Islamist extremists, as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed the country would remain resolute in its opposition to terrorism.
Islamabad: Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif sought civil nuclear technology to overcome Pakistan's energy crisis during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Friday
London: Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a Manchester-bound Pakistani passenger plane sounded a mid-air "security alert", forcing Britain to scramble two fighter jets to escort the plane to the country's designated counter-terrorism airport.
Washington: US President Barack Obama strongly defended the controversial drone strikes as "legal, effective" and necessary in a "just war" of self-defence as he announced a new counter-terrorism doctrine that include setting new limits on their use in countries like Pakistan.
On Board Special Aircraft: With thousands of Indians set to return from Saudi Arabia due to the 'Nitaqat' law, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid says state governments have been "forewarned" so that the situation does not become "unmanageable".
