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GAUHATI, India - Three bombs exploded in India's restive northeast Sunday, killing five people and wounding more than 25, police said. Full Story »

GUWAHATI, India (AFP) - Suspected separatists in northeast India set off two explosions on Sunday killing five people and wounding 50 more, police said, as two of the movement's leaders remained under arrest. Full Story »

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian passenger ferry with almost 250 people aboard sank in rough waters off Sumatra island Sunday, killing at least one, police said, while a second ferry ran aground in nearby waters. Full Story »

RYLSTONE, Australia (AFP) - Hundreds of residents in eastern Australia were on alert Sunday as out-of-control wildfires fanned by soaring temperatures and windy conditions threatened properties, officials said. Full Story »

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and 40 wounded in two bomb blasts in northeast India's troubled Assam state on Sunday, police said. Full Story »

KABUL - Five Afghan border security guards have died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. Full Story »

JAKARTA (AFP) - A ferry carrying more than 200 people sank off Indonesia's Sumatra island, possibly due to bad weather, police said Sunday. Full Story »

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A ferry with 213 people on board sank off Indonesia's Riau islands on Sunday after being battered by bad weather, killing at least one person, police said. Full Story »

SAIPAN (AFP) - Police on the Pacific resort island of Saipan said Sunday they believed they knew why a gunman went on the rampage and killed four people before turning the gun on himself. Full Story »

SEOUL, South Korea - Apple Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets. Full Story »

HEGANG, China - Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 — the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years. Full Story »

MUMBAI, India - The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors. Full Story »

KABUL - Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives. Full Story »

MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday. Full Story »

SEOUL, South Korea - Buddhist monks from South and North Korea held a joint ceremony at a temple in the communist country Saturday in a continuation of civic exchanges between the nations despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month. Full Story »

ISLAMABAD - Three suspected militants blew themselves up as police gave chase Saturday in the Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir, authorities said. Full Story »

KABUL - Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home. Full Story »

BEIJING - Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues. Full Story »