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Latest The Pope has completed his tour of the Philippines by drawing six million people to a park in what’s believed to be the largest crowd for a papal event.

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Around the Region Countries react to Indonesia’s firing squad executions; US ain’t apples in Malaysia;Record crowd turns out for Pope; Hanoi Jane Fonda apologises.

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian skinheads converged on Malaysias capital Kuala Lumpur over the weekend for two days of full-throated live music performances - but with a message far different from that often associated with their Western cousins.

A Phetchabun monk who admitted to having sex with a male discipline has left the monkhood after being put under pressure by the National Buddhism Office and lay people, reports said.

Five people were killed and churches set on fire in Niger on Saturday (January 18) in fresh protests against the French weekly Charlie Hebdos cartoon of Mohammed, as France condemned the violence and asserted its commitment to freedom of expression.

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Latest The Pope has been forced to reduce the time spent on an outlying Philippines island as a typhoon moves closer with ironic emphasis on nature’s powers.

Latest The Pope has told the Philippines that ‘‘scandalous inequities’’ and corruption are among the manmade ailments that the world should correct.