The word "region" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an area or part of a country or the world. For example, "The southern region of India has a much warmer climate than the northern region."
Last June, the IPCC Fifth Assessment report warned of larger "near-term increases in seasonal mean and annual mean temperatures" in the region.
Writing days before Abdullah's death, the American author Stephen Kinzer warned that the basis of the west's relationship with the Saudi regime was shifting in fundamental ways, while Saudi Arabia's position in a region beset by insurrection and civil war was ever less secure.
The west has long viewed the Saudis as a pillar of stability in an unruly region.
The Oman deal is part of a government effort to sell 100 aircraft to the Gulf region in 2013, sales which could be worth more than £6bn to UK firms, Downing Street said in a statement.
Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.
Most people need help in neighbouring countries and Britain is rightly setting an example in providing aid to the nearly 4 million Syrian refugees in the region.
"We would have an obligation as a good friend and neighbour in our region to respond if we had a request from one of those nations," he said.
Dutton said the government was "working very hard behind the scenes" and cabinet's national security committee had met five times to look at ways in which Australia could respond to any potential cases within the Asia-Pacific region.
A security forces officer from Russia's Chechnya region and four other men have been charged in connection with shooting Nemtsov on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin on 27 February, but investigators have failed to get those behind what is widely believed to be a contract killing.
Low-level fighting has continued in the region despite a February ceasefire.
More than 3in of rain fell over much of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois Monday night and Tuesday morning, and some areas got up to 5in of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Fuchs said, capping a week of downpours in the region.
