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Ahmed Rashid in Lahore argues that the entire South Asia region faces another year of uncertainty in 2009.

Key facts, figures and dates.

South Asia faces muted New Year celebrations with the deadly attacks in Mumbai still fresh in the memory.

Thousands in the Arab world rally against Israeli air raids in Gaza, while Hezbollah puts its fighters in southern Lebanon on alert.

Thousands rally across the Arab world to condemn Israel's air raids in the Gaza Strip, while Hezbollah calls on its fighters in southern Lebanon to be on alert.

The highest authority in Sunni Islam gives its backing for the first time to an interpretation of the Koran submitted by a woman.

A court in Bangladesh sentences three men to death for a 2004 attack that killed three people and wounded a British diplomat.

Students at Nigeria's network of Islamic boarding schools, known as almajiri, tell of their life as child beggars.

BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool retraces the journey taken by Joseph and Mary according to the New Testament Gospel of Luke.

Secular Turks face more discrimination now the conservative AK Party is in government, a report says.

BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool answers readers' questions about his journey on foot from Nazareth to Bethlehem, retracing a journey made by Joseph and Mary in the Christmas story told by Luke the Evangelist.

A chronology of key events

A chronology of key events.

A chronology of key events

Key facts, figures and dates.

BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool retraces the journey taken by Joseph and Mary according to the New Testament Gospel of Luke.

The BBC's Martin Asser explores the world of Syrian exotic lingerie, manufactured to spice up of some the most conservative Muslim marriages.

Reaction from around Scotland to the conviction of Bilal Abdulla for the failed attacks in London and at Glasgow Airport.

Mark Daly spent two months investigating the case, in a journey which took from from Houston, Paisley, to India and Norway.

A Muslim think tank finds some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic law.