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While Malaysian Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim continues to allege widespread fraud in the weekend's election, investors have accepted the re-election of Najib Razak's ruling coalition positively.

Tributes have been flowing for the retiring Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, who has confirmed that he's stepping down at the end of this season, after more than 26 years in the post.

It's well documented that the planet is losing plant and animal species.

A seven-hour shoot-out has ended with Indonesian police killing three suspected terrorists and arresting two others, south-east of the capital, Jakarta.

Just days before national elections in Pakistan, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has been injured at an election rally.

With more than a third of Pakistan's population under the age of 40, Imran Khan has been reaching out to younger voters with his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party or PTI.

Malaysia's Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he will soon present evidence of electoral fraud in Sunday's bitterly contested polls.

In Malaysia, the three-party Pakatan Rakyat alliance will not back down from its claims that the ruling Barisan Nasional cheated its way back to office.

An increasing number of Vietnamese refugees are seeking asylum in Australia by boat.

The Australian Government has decided to release asylum seeker families into the community, on bridging visas, cutting costs and acknowledging that keeping them in detention takes a toll on their mental health.

Myanmar has delayed by five years its deadline to eliminate drug production within its borders.

Former Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby has been appointed by the United Nations to investigate and report on human rights abuses in North Korea.

Ghost nets, as the name suggests, are virtually invisible, can't be tracked and cause ecological damage by entangling fish and other sea creatures.

Cambodia has begun preparations for a controversial hydropower project in the remote northeast: the Lower Se San 2 Dam.

The Australian Government is being urged to buy 100 thousand head of cattle and give them to Indonesia.

The United States has returned the fossilised remains of a 70 million year old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

Indonesia is showing interest in investing in Australian cattle properties to meet the demand for beef.

An Australian parliamentary inquiry into slavery will be told today that more needs to be done to help women who've voluntarily come to Australia to work in the sex industry.

Malaysian police have banned a planned protest rally by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.