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The number of billionaires in India doubled in 2009, Forbes magazine says.

Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say.

Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad.

The chief minister of India's Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, is summoned to appear before an inquiry into riots in 2002.

The Foreign Office says a five-year-old boy from Oldham kidnapped in Pakistan has not been released.

Drug abuse is rife in the Afghan police force with up to 40% of recruits testing positive in some areas, a US report says.

Russian PM Vladimir Putin is due in India for talks expected to focus on arms and energy contracts.

Indian security forces step up their operations against Maoist rebels, security officials say.

Two missile strikes by US drone aircraft kill at least 12 suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.

Why the UK fears politics and force are out of synch