Ending a decade long US boycott of Narendra Modi, President Barack Obama congratulated him on BJP's "success in India's historic election" and invited him to visit Washington "to further strengthen our bilateral relationship".
A ferry carrying over 250 passengers sank Thursday in the middle of a river in Bangladesh due to storm and heavy rainfall.
Polio workers continued to administer polio drops Thursday under the protection of the army in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region in the fourth phase of polio vaccination drive.
Three family members brutally killed a woman with a sickle for marrying a man from a different caste in the eastern town of Sahiwal in Pakistan, a police source told Efe Thursday.
A Sudanese woman was sentenced to death Thursday after she was convicted of apostasy - the renunciation of one's faith - for marrying a Christian, a media report quoted officials as saying.
The death toll in Turkey's horrific coal mine accident rose to 238 Wednesday with hundreds of miners still trapped underground.