A British soldier has been killed in the battle to push the Taliban out of their last stronghold in Afghanistan.

Martial arts movie star Bruce Lee has been immortalized in wax.

At least eight people have died after a bomb blast in a restaurant popular with foreign tourists in the western Indian city of Pune.

Welcome to our Picture of the Day feature from the just opened Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Each day of the Games a senior photo editors will choose a frame they particularly like from our team of photographers at the Olympics here in Vancouver, and up at Whistler and Cypress.

This picture was chosen by Asia Pictures Editor Paul Barker, and it's a shot of the snowboarder flying through the Olympic rings at the start of the opening ceremony. REUTERS/David Gray