KABUL, Afghanistan — After years of comings and goings, almost everything about leaving Kabul is familiar: the ride through dusty dawn...
BEIJING — She has a resume that would make U.S. political consultants drool: A renowned soprano who's performed for troops serving the...
LONDON — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education-rights campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been able to... |
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ATTARI, India — Real estate prices have jumped sharply in recent months in this area where India meets Pakistan, as resorts and...
BEIJING — For most of the last two decades, director Lou Ye has angered Chinese authorities by making movies that touch on sensitive...
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that Afghan security forces were ready to protect the country if the U.S.-...
VRINDAVAN, India — Lalita Goswami was married only a few years when her husband, a Hindu priest who beat her and abused drugs, died of...
DANDONG, China — Every time Kim Kyung Ok takes the bus into North Korea's downtown Pyongyang, she's startled by changes that look...
Malala Yousafzai did not trade in her modest head scarf for a pair of skinny jeans. She wanted to go to school.
NEW DELHI — Politics, an official's controversial comments about rape, and an upcoming election.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On city streets, on the airwaves and in the newspapers of a country numbed by years of bombings and...
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The sun pounds down on the U.S. Marine sergeant and the tribal elder in this faceless, bone-colored...
LAHORE, Pakistan — The seed of jihad was planted in Shahbaz Ahmed in 2001 when fundamentalist mosques in Pakistan welled up with...
BEIJING — Forced evictions of poor and working-class people from their homes and property are accelerating in China, leading to...
WASHINGTON — The federal government should “view with suspicion” attempts by two Chinese telecommunications companies to...
BEIJING — Getting around China's congested capital requires a certain calculus: In choosing a means of transportation, you must...
Reaching a long-sought milestone, Japanese researchers have demonstrated in mice that eggs and sperm can be grown from stem cells and...
BRUSSELS — Since becoming head of the world's most durable military alliance three years ago, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh...
A 25-year-old man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing the son of a Japanese filmmaker in a Beverly Hills carport in 2010, a crime that...
CHENNAI, India — Kesavan's father and grandfather were caretakers who sold candles and performed basic rituals at their local...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Ben Lan threw a line in the water one recent afternoon and caught two fair-sized specimens in 10 minutes. With 10...
PERUNDURAI, India — When visitors approach, the flightless birds with the large eyes and jerky necks kick their neighbors and peck...
It's a typical weekday at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. Clint Eastwood is signing autographs just outside the hotel's front window for a...
BEIJING — By expelling renegade Politburo member Bo Xilai from the Communist Party and referring him for prosecution on offenses...
WASHINGTON – The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan is being transferred and another Marine general will take over the war...
WASHINGTON — President Obama, in a rare move, blocked the acquisition by a Chinese-owned company of four wind farm projects next to...
BEIJING — He was a gentle, if somewhat befuddled man. He couldn't keep track of his money or figure out how to take the bus, but he...
Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn't mean it can't serve up a shattering surprise now and again.
BEIJING — The $15,000 that factory worker Li Jianli saved up to buy his white Toyota Corolla turned out to be nowhere near the...
BEIJING — In its heyday, the largest island was home to several hundred workers who caught fish and collected albatross feathers to...
What was supposed to have been a blockbuster weekend for Apple Inc. was instead marred by lower-than-expected sales for the iPhone 5 and a...
Far more civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas than U.S. counter-terrorism officials have...
BEIJING — The Chinese police chief who fled to a U.S. Consulate in February and set off a messy, sprawling political scandal involving...
SEOUL — With less than 90 days left before this year's South Korean presidential election, computer software mogul Ahn Cheol-soo has...
BEIRUT — Two former Turkish generals and a retired admiral were among more than 300 ex-officers sentenced to prison terms Friday in...
BEIJING — The last week's anti-Japan demonstrations in China have been a spectacular display of just how easily the ruling Communist...
In the first such fine of an international carrier, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a $150,000 fine against Pakistan...
WASHINGTON — Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, met privately with President Obama after accepting Congress' highest honor...
BEIJING — The worst of the anti-Japanese protests that have swept China in recent days may be over. The financial fallout for the...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Across Afghanistan, at combat outposts in the wind-scoured desert and the jagged mountains, it was daily routine:...
WASHINGTON — The United States and China have filed international trade complaints against each other, escalating trade tensions...
SHANGHAI — The family always knew there was something mysterious about Wang Fanglian, secrets he dared not share with even his closest...
BEIJING — Anti-Japan rallies spread to dozens more Chinese cities Sunday, as thousands of people demonstrated against the Japanese...
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a disastrous day for the NATO force in Afghanistan, four American troops were gunned down Sunday by Afghan...
WASHINGTON — When a senior U.S. general met in Beijing recently with Lt. Gen. Cai Yingting, the deputy chief of China's armed forces,...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Does a prince's presence endanger those serving alongside him?
BEIJING — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping appeared in public Saturday after a two-week absence that had sparked intense...
CAIRO — Anti-American violence erupted across the Muslim world for a third day, with enraged protesters scaling the walls of U.S....
HONG KONG — As the final call for the flight to Beijing crackles over the public address system, Zhang Qian flips through the pages of...
NEW DELHI — After months of criticism over policy malaise, the Indian government on Friday announced a series of bold economic reforms...
BEIJING — Compared with other Chinese officials who have inexplicably dropped out of view over the decades, either because of ill...
KABUL, Afghanistan — When 14-year-old Khorshid took to her skateboard, her face would light up with an enormous smile. For an Afghan...
KOTA, India — The fourth of seven children of illiterate parents, Mohammad Ahmad grew up on his family's two-acre farm with barely...
KHAZANA, Pakistan — Awal Gul knows that home is just a two-hour drive over the jagged ridgeline that separates Pakistan from...
TORONTO--From “Hearts and Minds” to “Shoah,” documentary film has a long history of tackling difficult subjects like...
WASHINGTON — The State Department on Friday designated Pakistan's Haqqani network a foreign terrorist organization, opening the way...
KOLKATA, India — The dusty files, manual typewriter, aging books and film reels in metal tins languish in Satyajit Ray's study,...
WASHINGTON — A Libyan man says he was waterboarded while in CIA custody in Afghanistan, a new allegation that challenges the long-...
BEIJING — At least 80 people were killed Friday when a pair of earthquakes jolted a mountainous region of southwestern China,...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama...
During an illustrious military career, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Clifford Ryan was awarded a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart....
KABUL, Afghanistan — American special operations forces have suspended the training of new recruits to an Afghan village militia until...
BEIJING — Bo Xilai could be the ultimate party pooper.
BEIJING — Facing a sharp economic slowdown at home, Chinese companies are plowing money into U.S. assets at a record pace, making huge...
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon investigation into the burning of Korans at a U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan in February found that American...
WASHINGTON — Officials on one of Earth's most isolated archipelagoes are borrowing four-wheel-drive vehicles from private owners for...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A barrage of missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least 18 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday, the latest...
NEW DELHI — Has the Indian government lost its sense of humor?
KABUL, Afghanistan — A potentially serious rift has emerged in the way the Afghan and U.S. governments view "insider" shootings,...
BEIJING — Gu Kailai, wife of a former Politburo member and daughter of a revolutionary general, was given a suspended death sentence...
In the aftermath of World War II, Istanbul's politics, like its geography, stood delicately balanced between East and West. So, too, does...
KABUL, Afghanistan — War is an ageless poetic wellspring, yielding wrenching odes to the white heat of combat, the longing for lost...
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