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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
Police searched for gunmen who killed two German journalists while they spent the night in a tent in a remote area of northern Afghanistan.
Thousands of people protested across Bangladesh as a power shortage widened with the accidental shut down of another generation unit, officials say.
Twelve Sri Lankan Government soldiers are missing following fierce fighting with Tamil rebels in the east of the island that left at least seven combatants dead, the Defence Ministry says.
Indian troops have shot dead three Islamic militants after they crossed into Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistan, a defence spokesman says.
Pakistan has united in mourning to remember around 73,000 people killed in an earthquake exactly a year ago.
India's Health Secretary has described a continuing outbreak of dengue fever as serious as the death toll rises and thousands of people report ill at overwhelmed hospitals.
Hundreds of survivors of last year's earthquake in Pakistan have staged a protest in the capital, Islamabad, accusing reconstruction officials of corruption.
Pakistan's authorities say they have found another two rockets near a government building in the capital, Islamabad.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two German journalists while they were camping in a tent in northern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said.
Insurgents ambushed NATO soldiers on patrol in southern Afghanistan killing one of them, as Afghan police said they had shot dead a Taliban commander who was once a governor.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says fighting against Taliban forces in Afghanistan has been very tough.
Sri Lankan troops have kept up attacks against Tamil Tiger rebels, a day after both sides said they had inflicted heavy losses.
More than $US90 million ($A121 million) in pledges made to Pakistan after a devastating earthquake a year ago has yet to be delivered and is urgently needed, former US president George Bush says.
Russia deported a planeload of Georgians accused of immigration offences, the latest retaliation by Moscow intended to bring its small southern neighbour to heel.
Security forces have killed at least 22 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn ground battle in eastern Sri Lanka, hours after war planes pounded guerrilla positions in the area, defence officials say.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body as he was searched outside a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman, officials say.
Russian authorities plan to ban Georgian nationals from entering Russia as migrant workers, officials said, accusing such migrants of being responsible for a high number of crimes.
A NATO general has assumed command of the eastern provinces in Afghanistan.
Pakistani bomb disposal experts have found and defused two rockets pointing towards President Pervez Musharraf's official residence in Islamabad, hours after a blast near his army home.
Sri Lanka's Government and Tamil Tiger rebels remain divided on a venue for peace talks but are showing signs of a compromise over dates after Norway renewed its bid to end a surge in violence.
The biggest book fair in the world has opened in Germany, with Indian authors taking centre stage.
The United Nations refugee agency says up to 90,000 Afghans have been displaced by fighting between NATO-led forces and Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan.
The Afghan Government says 2,300 rebels have taken up an amnesty offer since its launch in 2004.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Georgia not to provoke or blackmail his country, as Moscow ignores international appeals to drop economic sanctions against its southern neighbour.
The international aid agency Oxfam says 1.8 million survivors from last year's earthquake in Pakistan face a second winter in refugee camps without adequate protection against the weather.
A statement from India's Tata Group says it plans to invest nearly $117 million to launch a chain of consumer and electronic goods megastores as it moves into the fast-developing retail sector.
Tens of thousands of the survivors of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan are still living in make-shift shelters as winter begins, British aid groups say.
Sri Lankan air raids against Tamil Tiger rebels have dimmed prospects of early peace talks between the two sides despite fresh attempts by Norway to avert a return to full-scale war, officials say.
The Indian Government has summoned health ministers from four dengue fever-hit states after hundreds of people have been admitted to hospital with the mosquito-borne illness.
The European Union has called on Russia to lift economic sanctions on Georgia or risk deepening the crisis between the ex-Soviet neighbours sparked by a spying row.
Two US troops and one Afghan soldier have been killed and three US soldiers wounded, in a battle with Taliban rebels in eastern Afghanistan.
Georgia has turned four Russian officers accused of spying over to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
At least 14 people, including five civilians, have been killed in a string of recent attacks and bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
Russia's transport ministry has ordered the suspension of air, rail, land and sea links to Georgia, Russian news agencies report.
Georgia says it will hand over four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges to European mediators in an effort to defuse a crisis with Russia.
A suicide car-bomber attacked a NATO convoy on a busy road in the Afghan capital of Kabul, wounding six people including three NATO soldiers, police and NATO say. | 