Pakistan

Police used tear gas and water cannons to try and disperse the demonstrators who had gathered outside the French consulate.

Kerry on unannounced trip to urge the government to do more to crack down on militant groups.

At least 10 Indian and Pakistani soldiers and civilians have been killed in the past week due to fighting in the Kashmir region

Only bold change can prevent another Peshawar massacre.

One surgeon is fighting to stop UK hospitals buying medical supplies made by Pakistani children under appalling conditions

"Truly there are so many tears this Christmas," Pope Francis said in his annual address.

Following the army school massacre, the Pakistani government has reinstated the death penalty.

The ambush, which took place overnight, comes just four days after the Taliban massacre at a school in Peshawar

"I want to get out and take revenge for all the deaths. The ones who killed, my friends."

People around Pakistan lit candles in mourning of the 148 people killed in the attack

Today's massacre wasn't the first time that a militant groups have targeted school children in Pakistan in recent years.

Pakistan and Afghanistan should join forces to face their common terrorist enemies.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has issued a statement in which she blasted the attack as 'cowardly'

At least 132 children died after gunmen broke into the school in the city of Peshawar

The US Congress is due to vote for $1 billion dollars in military aid for Pakistan for 2015

Adnan el-Shukrijumah is believed to be the group's external operations chief at one time

Though operations continue in Pakistan and Yemen, Somalia has third consecutive drone-free month.

With four more health workers killed this week, trying to eradicate the virus is a dangerous job

99% of polio has been eliminated, but now war and Ebola are threatening to derail the ambitious programme

Taliban militants say the campaign to immunize children against polio is a cover for Western spies, accuse workers of distributing vaccines designed to sterilize children

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a response to the Pakistani army's actions against their positions in tribal areas straddling Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

Asia Bibi was sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy. Four years later, she's taking her case to Pakistan's Supreme Court

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that only 295 out of 2,379 of victims of US drone strikes in Pakistan could be identified as militants

The 17-year-old waited for the end of her school day before responding to news of winning the Nobel Peace Prize award.

Indian Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, champions of children's rights, share this year's Nobel Peace Prize

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

More than a dozen were wounded around Kashmir as fighting broke out between India and Pakistan

The jihadists that beheaded James Foley were willing to barter him for a 42-year-old neuroscientist

More than 260 Indians have been reported dead

Lack of advance warnings of Kashmir's heaviest rainfall in fifty years contribute to huge death toll