A court has sentenced an Indonesian maid to six years in jail for trying to kill her employer in Malaysia by poisoning her coffee and soup, a lawyer said Tuesday.

A Malaysian state government fretting about rising divorces said Monday it will offer classes on romance to help Muslim couples stay together _ even encourage them to bathe together to promote intimacy.

Iran said Monday it has not rejected a U.N.-backed plan aimed at limiting the country's ability to make nuclear weapons as it called for a technical panel to review its terms.

Iran said Monday it wants a technical panel to review a U.N.-backed plan that envisages sending most of its uranium stockpile to Russia for enrichment, limiting the country's ability to make a nuclear weapon.

Pakistan's armed forces hope to rout Taliban militants in the rugged mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan before winter sets in by late December, the country's foreign minister said Sunday.

Government prosecutors charged a Malaysian man Friday with allegedly killing his Indonesian housemaid, who died after being found beaten and locked in a bathroom.

Malaysia's Islamic opposition party firmly shut the door Thursday on any attempt to form an alliance with the federal government, ending a leadership spat that had threatened to split the party.

Malaysia's conservative Islamic party has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives instead of "young virgin girls", a state official said.

An official says police have found the bodies of two schoolgirls who fell into a river when the bridge they were walking on collapsed in northern Malaysia earlier this week.

Malaysian authorities will replant trees in a forest ravaged by logging on Borneo island in the latest effort to restore the natural habitat of endangered orangutans, a global environmental group said Wednesday.

One child died and two others are missing after a bridge collapsed at a campsite in northern Malaysia, sending a group of students plunging into the river below, police said Tuesday.

A new footbridge across a Malaysian river collapsed while schoolchildren crossed it during a camping trip, killing one girl and leaving two missing and feared drowned in the currents below, officials said Tuesday.

A new footbridge across a river collapsed while schoolchildren crossed it during a camping trip in Malaysia, killing at least one girl and leaving two missing and feared drowned in the currents below, officials said Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - One child drowned and two others were missing on Tuesday after a group of Malaysian schoolchildren plunged into a river when a suspension bridge they were crossing collapsed on Monday night, according to police.

An Indonesian housemaid died in a Malaysian hospital Monday, nearly a week after being found beaten and locked in a bathroom at her employers' home, an official said.

An Indonesian maid who was allegedly severely beaten by her Malaysian employers, and then bound and locked up in a toilet for two days, has died in hospital, police said Monday.

Malaysian police arrested a man suspected of killing his wife and possibly blinding his teenage daughter by splashing acid on them while they slept, an official and news reports said Sunday.

A Malaysian woman who gave premature birth aboard a plane said Saturday that doctors are expected to release her son from a hospital Monday or Tuesday.

Malaysian police said Saturday they had arrested a native leader who set up roadblocks in Borneo to stop a logging firm from encroaching on their ancestral land.

A Malaysian woman who gave premature birth to a boy on board an airplane minutes before it landed will get free flights for life along with her child, an airline official said Friday.