A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province Saturday, state media said.
An airstrike by Pakistani fighter jets killed more than 30 Taliban fighters, including an alleged high-ranking Taliban commander, a government spokesman said Saturday.
A bomb hidden in an apple vendor's stall in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo exploded Saturday, wounding at least 45 people, police said.
Thailand's prime minister faced growing pressure to resign as anti-government protesters occupied his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupted rail and air service in some of the country's most popular tourist destinations.
The grinding misery triggered by the massive floods in a downtrodden part of northeastern India and across the border in Nepal persisted Friday, with government and aid agencies swinging into action to help the 2 million-plus people fleeing high-rising, fast-moving waters.
Anti-government protesters closed down three airports in Thailand Friday in an effort to force the prime minister to step down, airport officials said.
India's economic growth slowed to 7.9 percent in the April-June quarter, down from 9.2 percent in the same period last year, amid a slump in manufacturing.
Fierce rains lashed central Japan early Friday, killing one woman, inundating vast stretches of rural and residential areas, and prompting authorities to order tens of thousands from their homes. One man was seriously injured.
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A major Buddhist monastery in Tibet reopened this week five months after being shut by authorities during anti-government riots that rocked the region's capital, a staff member said Friday.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province Saturday, state media said.
An airstrike by Pakistani fighter jets killed more than 30 Taliban fighters, including an alleged high-ranking Taliban commander, a government spokesman said Saturday.
A bomb hidden in an apple vendor's stall in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo exploded Saturday, wounding at least 45 people, police said.
Thailand's prime minister faced growing pressure to resign as anti-government protesters occupied his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupted rail and air service in some of the country's most popular tourist destinations.
The grinding misery triggered by the massive floods in a downtrodden part of northeastern India and across the border in Nepal persisted Friday, with government and aid agencies swinging into action to help the 2 million-plus people fleeing high-rising, fast-moving waters.
Anti-government protesters closed down three airports in Thailand Friday in an effort to force the prime minister to step down, airport officials said.
India's economic growth slowed to 7.9 percent in the April-June quarter, down from 9.2 percent in the same period last year, amid a slump in manufacturing.
Fierce rains lashed central Japan early Friday, killing one woman, inundating vast stretches of rural and residential areas, and prompting authorities to order tens of thousands from their homes. One man was seriously injured.
China isn't the only country to fake a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony. It turns out that Australia knows a thing about miming music, too.
A major Buddhist monastery in Tibet reopened this week five months after being shut by authorities during anti-government riots that rocked the region's capital, a staff member said Friday.
An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.
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A military field investigation of an American airstrike in Afghanistan is largely completed and there is no evidence for Afghan claims that as many as 90 civilians were killed, according to a senior U.S. defense official familiar with the findings.
Extreme flooding has displaced millions of people on either side of the India-Nepal border after a river burst its banks, authorities said Thursday.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff came away from a secret meeting with Pakistani military commanders this week "encouraged" by Pakistan's efforts against growing threats from the Taliban and al Qaeda.
A lawsuit filed in California against Kellogg, Brown and Root on Wednesday alleges the company and its subcontractor were involved in a human trafficking plan that forced Nepali men to work against their will in Iraq.
The Dalai Lama was admitted to an Indian hospital on Thursday to undergo tests for abdominal discomfort, his spokesman said.
A confrontation in western China has killed two police officers and led authorities to detain at least 20 members of the Uighur ethnic group, according to an international organization that represents Uighur interests.
A bomb targeting a police van killed at least seven people in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest Thursday, police told CNN.
Thai judges issued arrest warrants Wednesday for anti-government protesters who led crowds to seize government buildings including the prime minister's office and the state-run television station, the official Thai News Agency reported.
Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, killing as many as 49 insurgents as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Two U.S. troops and a group of contractors have been indicted on charges they were part of a bribery scheme involving the awarding of military contracts in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took his place Thursday as a member of Malaysia's Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple a government weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent.
Australia's highest court has reinstated the first convictions under the nation's sex slavery laws in a test case with ramifications for future prosecutions.
A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.
A nearly fatal bite by a poisonous snake led to the arrest of a man Wednesday for keeping 51 deadly cobras and mambas in his Tokyo apartment without permission, police said.
The remote east Indian state of Orissa, historically a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions, erupted in violence this week after gunmen killed a Hindu leader and mobs burned churches in retaliation.
"Convincing evidence" indicates a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan last week killed 90 civilians, including 60 children, a U.N. fact-finding human rights team said Tuesday.
Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north.
The U.S. Marine commander on Wednesday warned of a "growing" insurgent threat in Afghanistan, but he said forces would have to be cut in Iraq to send more Marines to Afghanistan.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader is suffering from exhaustion and has canceled his international trips for the next three weeks, according to his Web site.
Gunmen Tuesday seized a Japanese aid worker and his driver in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but the country is still far and away the world's leading source of the heroin-producing crop, the U.N. said Tuesday.
The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in southern China has reached 20, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday.
Thai judges issued arrest warrants Wednesday for anti-government protesters who led crowds to seize government buildings -- including the prime minister's residence and the state-run television station, the official Thai News Agency reported.
More than 30 Taliban fighters and four policemen were killed in a series of clashes, airstrikes and bombings in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
Separatist Tamil rebels wounded at least 10 sailors in a brazen airstrike on a key harbor controlled by the navy in eastern Sri Lanka, while clashes in the north killed 27 guerrillas and two soldiers, the military said Wednesday.
Bush administration officials are angrily questioning whether a senior U.S. diplomat has interfered in Pakistani politics.
A strict Indian-imposed curfew continued for the third day in Kashmir on Tuesday, with the death toll for the past 24 hours reaching five after clashes between Indian security forces and pro-separatist protesters defying the curfew.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim won a landslide victory in a special election for a parliament seat Tuesday, strengthening his campaign to topple the government and become the next prime minister despite sodomy charges against him.
A U.S. consulate vehicle in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest came under gunfire Tuesday.
Floodwaters raged through more than 1,000 villages unaccustomed to high water after a river in northeast India burst its banks, UNICEF India and government officials said Tuesday.
North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has not removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The wreckage of a C-130 cargo plane that disappeared shortly after takeoff in the southern Philippines Monday night was found Tuesday about two miles (3km) offshore, the Philippines News Agency reported.
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At least four people were killed and 44 injured in a chemical plant explosion early Tuesday in southern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, quoting rescuers.
North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear reactor and will consider restoring the plutonium-producing facility in anger over Washington's failure to remove it from the U.S. list of terror sponsors.
Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi failed to retrieve food delivered to her home amid speculation she may have launched a hunger strike.
A blast at a rally in southwestern Pakistan killed three people and wounded at least 20 others Tuesday, authorities said.
Malaysia's top opposition figure ran for a Parliamentary seat in a special election Tuesday that he was expected to win despite sodomy accusations against him, as he pressed forward with his bid to topple the government.
A strong earthquake shook central Indonesia Tuesday, causing tall buildings in the capital to sway and prompting a tsunami alert, authorities and witnesses said.
Indian authorities in Kashmir arrested more than a dozen pro-separatist leaders and placed the divided Himalayan region in an around-the-clock curfew to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally Monday.
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari wrapped up a six-day visit to Myanmar Saturday, where he met with the ruling military junta and the party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Afghanistan's government on Monday demanded a review of international troops within its borders after an airstrike which Afghanistan believes killed about 90 civilians -- most of them children.
As in Rome and Athens, ancient relics in Beijing stand in stark contrast to the highways, buildings and vehicles of the modern age. At Beijing's Jianguomen, the fortification-like Ancient Observatory -- dating from 1442 during the Ming Dynasty -- dodges the overpasses of the Second Ring Road while standing within steps of a subway station.
Pakistan's ruling coalition split on Monday after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif withdrew his party and vowed to nominate a rival presidential candidate.
An Iran-bound Boeing 737 with 90 people on board crashed Sunday just outside the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing most passengers, a government official said.
Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa.
Militants attacked the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest Monday, killing 10 people in the latest unrest to hit the country since the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, authorities said.
Eight Americans arrested for planning or staging protests in Beijing were deported to the United States on Sunday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
Washington's top diplomat in China pressed the government to immediately free foreign activists jailed for protesting during the Olympics and criticized Beijing Sunday for failing to use the games to show "greater tolerance and openness."
They might not be as cute as pandas but the threats facing the world's giant freshwater fish need to be taken just as seriously -- in fact more so, according to Dr. Zeb Hogan.
Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir imposed an around-the-clock curfew Sunday, a day before separatist groups plan to hold a rally to oppose Indian rule in the Muslim-majority region.
An Iran-bound Boeing 737 with 90 people on board crashed Sunday just outside the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing dozens of passengers, a government official said.
Pakistan People's Party co-chair and widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, has accepted the nomination to be his party's candidate for the Pakistani presidency, PPP officials said Saturday night.
A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school basketball team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near Kyrgyzstan's capital, killing at least 65, government officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired two military commanders in the wake of a U.S. airstrike in western Afghanistan that killed 89 civilians, according to a statement from Karzai's office.
Four people were killed Saturday in two bombings in an extremist violence-plagued region of northwestern Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan, officials said.
The husband of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto has agreed to run for the Pakistani presidency.
The husband of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto has agreed to run for the Pakistani presidency.
Fourteen Afghan civilians were killed Saturday in Taliban roadside attacks and 17 Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO-led troops in southern Helmand province, officials said.
Without proper food, shoes, or support from his government, Hem Bunting, the Cambodian Olympic marathon competitor, prepared for the Olympics and hoped for international support in late July.
An incident in western Afghanistan has either killed 76 civilians, mostly children, or 30 militants, according to conflicting reports.
Thousands of miles from his life in California, Mal Whitfield is feeling at home again.
A senior Indian Army officer, two Indian Army soldiers and five separatist militants were killed in the Machil sector of the Line of Control in Indian-administered Kashmir Friday, the Indian Defense Ministry said.
The call I dread awakened me at 4 a.m. Five International Rescue Committee colleagues, traveling in a car en route to Kabul, had been ambushed by gunmen. Four were killed, and the fifth was critically injured.
Hong Kong was bracing Friday for what could be a direct hit from Tropical Storm Nuri.
The party of assassinated Benazir Bhutto has nominated her widower to be Pakistan's next president, a party spokesman said Friday.
Former rock star and convicted child molester Gary Glitter fears for his safety after returning to the UK, his lawyer says.
The International Olympic Committee has asked gymnastics officials to look into whether China's women's gymnastics team used underaged competitors, an IOC spokeswoman said Friday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory that police said killed 66 people and wounded more than 70 others.
The British economy ground to a halt between April and June, ending nearly 16 years of continuous growth.
An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale was euthanized by wildlife officials Friday after veterinarians determined that it was too weak to survive on its own.
Kenny Kan started customizing bikes more than 30 years ago, when he inherited his brother's old two-wheeler.
Three people were killed and about 100 were hurt after an earthquake struck southwestern China, state-run news reports said Friday.
Despite persistent questions about the ages of several members of the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the gold medal, the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is still no proof anyone cheated and believes the controversy will be "put to rest."
Typhoon Nuri is moving toward Hong Kong after triggering destruction in the Philippines that killed seven people.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.
Disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter is on his way to London after spending three days failing to find a country that would let him in, British officials said.
A car bomb exploded in southern Thailand, killing a local journalist and wounding 17 others, a police official said.
NATO disputes a report published in one of France's major daily newspapers that said French soldiers involved in deadly fighting in Afghanistan this week were struck by NATO airstrikes.
For the first time that sumo wrestling's governing body can recall, one of its revered athletes has been nabbed for drug possession.
Police say two suicide bombers have killed at least 15 people and wounded another 50 at a government arms factory near the Pakistani capital.
A British Embassy official says Prime Minister Gordon Brown has arrived in the Afghan capital for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai.
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