Malaysia's three key opposition parties moved to formalize their coalition despite ideological differences by officially registering their alliance, senior officials said Wednesday.

One of Malaysia's former transport ministers and a top port executive may have both committed fraud, contributing to a series of missteps that plunged a government-backed industrial project into a billion-dollar debt, a parliamentary watchdog said Wednesday.

The Malaysian government has refused to release 10,000 Bibles confiscated for using the word "Allah" to refer to God, a banned translation in Christian texts in this Muslim-majority country, an official said Wednesday.

A Malaysian government lawmaker and five other politically linked people were charged Tuesday with corruption in unrelated cases, hitting both the ruling coalition and opposition alike.

An Indonesian maid has been sentenced to six years in jail for attempting to murder her elderly Malaysian employer by putting weedkiller in her coffee and soup, reports said Tuesday.

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.