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The Indian princess who became a S Korean queenThe Indian princess who became a S Korean queen
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption South Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook

The South Korean first lady, Kim Jung-sook, is in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where she is visiting the ancient city of Ayodhya.

Ayodhya, which is best known as the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram, also however, holds

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Sri Lanka crisis: House of Cards in the Indian OceanSri Lanka crisis: House of Cards in the Indian Ocean
Image caption The key players: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe

What is happening in Sri Lanka right now sits somewhere in between House of Cards, Game of Thrones and Shakespeare's darkest Roman plays. It involves a man who betrayed his leader only now to return him to power, an

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Ramachandra Guha: How the right wing hounded out a Gandhi biographerRamachandra Guha: How the right wing hounded out a Gandhi biographer
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Three years ago, Ramachandra Guha, a historian and one of India's most respected public intellectuals, told an interviewer that India was "becoming a more intolerant country" than before.

A 50-year-old Muslim man had been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef

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Meghan and Harry: Lots of flowers, cheering and baby giftsMeghan and Harry: Lots of flowers, cheering and baby gifts
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There were lots of flowers.

There was lots of cheering. There were lots of gifts for the expected baby, the announcement of which kicked off the tour.

There were welcomes from men in grass skirts and from men with their tongues sticking out.

Image copyrightReutersImage caption There were plenty of excited
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Blasphemy ruling: The judges risking their livesBlasphemy ruling: The judges risking their lives
Image caption Asia Bibi's case has been hugely divisive in religiously conservative Pakistan

This could have been an open and shut case.

The complainants had quarrelled with Asia Bibi, and could be reasonably suspected of having dragged her to the court out of malice.

The fact that a formal police complaint was

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Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Mr Cha is a legend in the Chinese literary world

He's been referred to as the JRR Tolkien of Chinese literature and the grandfather of martial arts novels - but very few people have heard of him outside the Chinese-speaking world.

Novelist Louis Cha, who wrote under the name

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