Muzaffarbad / AFP A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said Saturday, prompting shock and revulsion. Qandeel Baloch, praised by many of the country’s youth for her willingness to break social taboos but condemned by conservatives, was strangled near the city ...

  Srinagar / AFP Police seized tens of thousands of newspapers in Indian-controlled Kashmir early Saturday and detained printing press workers, ramping up an information blackout after a week of unrest left 39 dead, officials and media outlets said. Teams of officers swooped on major newspaper offices in the restive region overnight, seizing printing plates in an attempt to curb ...

  Bloomberg Avianca Brasil is pushing ahead with plans to overhaul its aircraft fleet as the closely held carrier shakes off worries over the deep Brazilian recession and looks ahead to projections of rapid growth in Latin American air travel. Synergy Aerospace Corp., the airline’s owner, agreed to buy 62 narrow-body planes from Airbus Group SE’s A320neo family, the companies ...