At least 64 people have died in Pakistan and 40 are injured after a fire broke out on a train.
It happened near the town of Rahim Yar Khan in the south of Punjab province.
An exploding gas cylinder has been identified as the cause.
Three train carriages were destroyed in the blast
Anutin Charnvirakul elected Thai PM after rout of ruling party rival
Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, trouncing the candidate of the Shinawatra family's once-dominant ruling party to end a week of chaos and political deadlock.
15 dead in Sri Lanka bus crash
A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a deep ravine in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others.
Two powerful aftershocks hit Afghanistan after earthquakes killed 2,200
Two powerful aftershocks shook eastern Afghanistan in a span of 12 hours, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said, triggering fears of more deaths and destruction on Friday in a region where about 2,200 people died in quakes in four days.
Thai parliament to vote on new PM, as Thaksin jets off amid chaos
Thailand's parliament was set to choose a new prime minister on Friday, after days of political chaos, in a vote that could be overshadowed by the dramatic departure from the country of its most powerful politician Thaksin Shinawatra.
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