Closing arguments in Mumbai terrorism trial focus on defendant, witness

As the terrorism case against a Chicago businessman headed for the jury Tuesday, prosecutors defended their star witness and the defense...

Pakistan journalists walk razor's edge

The men in police commando uniforms sat silent, recalled investigative journalist Umar Cheema, as he nervously repeated that he was a...

Popular Indian guru's anticorruption fast turns violent

A popular yoga guru retreated to his plush ashram Sunday claiming the Indian government was out to kill him after police forcibly removed...

China cheers Li Na, an unlikely tennis champ

The bar was Irish, the sport originally French, but the zeitgeist on this night in Beijing was all about China.

'Red song' campaign in China strikes some false notes

Although her musical tastes run to Mariah Carey and Norah Jones, Vicy Zhang didn't hesitate when she received an instant message inviting...

Gates reassures Asia of U.S. military commitment

Despite mounting pressure to cut the U.S. Defense budget, the Pentagon is investing in new weapons systems, expanding military alliances and...

Boat carrying migrants from Libya capsizes; 200 feared dead

At least 200 migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans and South Asians, were missing and feared drowned after an overcrowded boat that left...

Chinese cook obsessed with Jewish coins

At his day job, Xu Long works endless hours in the sweltering kitchen of the Great Hall of the People, China's equivalent of the Capitol...

Japan leader Naoto Kan makes deal, survives no-confidence vote

Vowing to stay in office only a few more months to guide the response to the nation's ongoing nuclear crisis, Japanese Prime Minister...

Japan underestimated tsunami threat at Fukushima, U.N. experts say

Japan did not properly protect its nuclear plants against the threat of tsunami before the March 11 disaster that caused radiation to spew...

General's role did not cost him Joint Chiefs post, Gates says

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday dismissed as "garbage" reports that a senior Marine general was passed over to be chairman of...

Bin Laden raid gets little credence in conspiracy-minded Pakistan

It was all a ruse, Ejaz Ahmad sniffed. Osama bin Laden never lived in Abbottabad.

Psychological aftershocks rattle Japanese

A few days after Japan's magnitude 9 earthquake struck, physician Munetaka Ushio was making his rounds visiting patients when he felt the...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai demands that NATO end airstrikes on houses

Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Tuesday that NATO refrain from airstrikes on residential compounds, marking a sharp escalation in his...

Ai Weiwei book shows the caustic artist's softer side

Before his rants about corruption made him persona non grata with the Communist Party, before he started agitating for the rights of...

Taliban insurgents hit NATO base, downtown Herat in coordinated attacks

These days, the parts of Afghanistan that are considered relatively safe may well have a bull's-eye painted on them.

China tries to avert Inner Mongolia protests

Chinese authorities Sunday blanketed volatile towns in Inner Mongolia with armed police, blocked Internet and telephone connections, and...

Afghan officials say NATO strike killed 14 in residential area

A new dispute over civilian deaths erupted Sunday when Afghan officials claimed an errant NATO airstrike had killed 14 people, women and...

Parent anger plays role in Japan's reversal of raised radiation limits at schools

The parents were furious: Why, they demanded, had Japanese officials raised the acceptable level of radiation exposure for schoolchildren...

Suicide bomber kills six at Afghan governor's compound

A suicide bomber struck a security gathering in Afghanistan's north on Saturday, injuring a provincial governor and the German commander...

Angry Pakistan rejects U.S. appeal, plans to review drone campaign

Pakistani officials angered by the secret U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden declared they would conduct a full review of operations by...

North Korea releases California man

North Korea released a California businessman who had been imprisoned since November and reportedly faced charges of proselytizing, which is...

Pakistan shuts down U.S. 'intelligence fusion' cells

In a clear sign of Pakistan's deepening mistrust of the United States, Islamabad has told the Obama administration to reduce the number of...

Bombings in China rattle officials' nerves

A farmer who said his house had been demolished set off three bombs at government buildings in the eastern Chinese city of Fuzhou on...

8 U.S. troops killed in blast in southern Afghanistan

An explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed eight U.S. troops, officials said, an unusually large toll for a single incident.