Four International Security Assistance Force service members were killed by enemy forces during an operation in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, ISAF said.
International forces in Afghanistan are investigating reports civilians were killed in air strikes in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an ISAF spokesman said.
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, a man credited with major victories against the French and the American military, has died, according to local media reports. Giap was 102.
Hornets have killed dozens of people in China and injured more than 1,500 with their powerful venomous sting.
Never work with children or animals, goes the actors' maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too.
Want to be an Asian superpower? Then an aircraft carrier, it seems, is the minimum requirement for joining this elite club.
"Pack your bags you're going to South Korea." These are the words nine young North Korean defectors had waited years to hear having traveled thousands of miles.
A suicide attack by the Pakistani Taliban on the compound of an enemy militant commander in northwest Pakistan killed at least 17 people and wounded 22 others
Remember when woolly mammoths roamed the planet? No? Well don't worry if you missed the last ice age -- scientists have moved one step closer to possibly bringing the beasts back to life with the discovery of liquid blood in a well-preserved mammoth carcass in Siberia.
Chinese rescuers on Tuesday found 14 fishermen alive and recovered the bodies of two who had died from boats that sank during a typhoon, authorities said.
One hot mess. That's what you'll see on the front page of any leading e-commerce site in China.
Seventy-two people are missing after three Chinese fishing boats sank in the South China Sea amid stormy weather caused by a typhoon, state media reported.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought to present a united front on the controversial issue of asylum seekers Monday, as the two leaders held talks in Jakarta.
Authorities say they now know what may have caused a building in Mumbai to collapse: a decorator who removed a central wall and supporting beams
On a traffic-choked street in Bali's capital, Denpasar, Edo walks through his family's shop to an empty back room.
Hong Kong, with its glittering skyscrapers and luxury malls, is home to some of the world's richest people but new government figures show that a fifth of its population lives in poverty.
At least 40 people were killed and about 100 were wounded after a bomb exploded at a bazaar in Peshawar on Sunday, officials at a Pakistani hospital said.
A five-story residential building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai early Friday, trapping an unspecified number of people in the wreckage
At least 22 "boat people" faced a watery death off the coast of Indonesia, after their vessel capsized, a government spokesman said Saturday.
A new powerful earthquake struck Saturday in southwestern Pakistan, shaking an area already trying to recover from a quake that killed more than 300 people.
A five-story residential building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai early Friday, trapping an unspecified number of people in the wreckage
The hostage standoff between Philippines forces and separatist rebels is over, a military spokesman said Friday.
The death toll from the strong earthquake that struck southwestern Pakistan this week has risen to 350, a local official said.
At least 17 people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a bus carrying government employees in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.
Demeaning, exploitative, degrading. Beauty pageants have been called lots of things.
At least 19 people have been stung to death by hornets -- which may include the world's largest hornet species Vespa mandarinia -- in China's central Shaanxi province in the last three months, according to the city government of Ankang, the apparent epicenter of a recent spate of fatalities and injuries.
When Bernt Johansson crossed the mountainous countryside of North Korea into the city of Rason, the crowds there reminded the Swedish biker of the adulation that greeted his 1976 Olympic gold finish in Montreal.
Here is a look at the life of Kim Jong Il, former Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Details of his life are mysterious and vary from source to source.
In India, many women are obsessed with lightening their skin. CNN writer Moni Basu recalls her own family's pressures to not get "too dark."
The death toll from the strong earthquake that struck southwestern Pakistan this week has risen to 350, a local official said.
Nine people were killed and seven others were wounded after a group of militants attacked security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday
Pakistan, ranked by the Pew Research Center as one of the least tolerant countries in the world for gays, has pulled the plug on its only online resource for the Muslim nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
A Beijing court sentenced Li Tianyi, the son of a famous Chinese "singing general" in the People's Liberation Army, to 10 years in jail on Thursday over a gang rape that unleashed public outrage at the behavior of China's "princelings," or children of the political elite.
At least 158 people have been killed since fighting broke out earlier this month between separatist rebels and soldiers in the Philippines, state news reported Wednesday.
Here's a look at what you need to know about Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world. It borders Iran, Afghanistan and India in Southeast Asia. In 1947, Pakistan gained its independence from Great Britain.
A powerful earthquake in Pakistan has killed at least 330 people, Pakistani officials said.
A Beijing man who snatched a baby from a pram and hurled it to its death in an argument over a parking space was Wednesday sentenced to death by a Beijing court, according to court documents.
Pakistan quake: A deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Pakistan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Armed militants torched two tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops through southwest Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province, police said.
Heavy monsoon rains have left at least 19 people dead, most of them children, in the northern Philippines, state media reported.
All Saints Church was designed to look like a mosque -- to symbolize unity amidst a community of many religions. Completed in 1883, it was built within the old walled city of Peshawar during a century of relative peace and harmony.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet with the group known as the P5 plus 1 on Thursday during his visit to the United Nations, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Monday.
Choir members and children attending Sunday school were among 81 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Protestant church in northwest Pakistan.
Former Communist Party official Bo Xilai appealed his conviction and sentencing for corruption, a source with direct knowledge of the case told CNN.
A court in eastern China is due Sunday to announce its much anticipated verdict in the trial of Bo Xilai, the former rising star of the ruling Communist Party
At least 20 people have died after Typhoon Usagi slammed into southern China.
Militants killed five police officers and wounded 10 other people on Monday in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, police said.
In a country where the image of Mao Zedong is still revered and taxi drivers hang Mao medallions from their rear-view mirrors almost like lucky talismans, Bo Xilai's "red culture" revival was always going to have traction.
Days before a court in eastern China announced the date for delivering the much anticipated verdict in the trial of Bo Xilai, the disgraced Communist Party leader reiterated his innocence but anticipated lengthy imprisonment in a letter to his family.
Typhoon Usagi had Hong Kong and China's Pearl River Delta in its predicted path Sunday.
Pakistan has released Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the founding members of the Afghan Taliban, foreign ministry spokesman Aizaz Chaudhry says.
In a sudden turn of events, North Korea on Saturday postponed reunions that were to start next week for families separated during the Korean War.
A panel has been formed to probe a deadly ambush that happened earlier this week in northeastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
At least three people were killed in a bombing at a bus garage in the Philippines on Friday, CNN affiliate ABS-CBN reported, citing authorities.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011.
Here's a look at what you need to know about Japan, a country of islands located off the eastern coast of Asia.
The Olympics can be a cruel game with winners and losers. And in Tokyo, there is Kohei Jinno, 80 and his wife Yasuko, 79.
The strongest storm on the planet so far this year is rumbling across the Western Pacific near Taiwan and the Philippines.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked Tokyo Electric Power Co. to decommission two more reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
This episode's guests include Yu Gang, chairman of Yihaodian.com, one of China's biggest online grocery stores, David Wei, former CEO of Alibaba.com and Oliver Rust, senior vice president of Nielsen.
Beaten with bicycle chains, burned with hot irons and bashed with a shoe, the case of Indonesian domestic helper Kartika Puspitasari -- whose Chinese employers were jailed this week over the assaults -- highlights just how tough Hong Kong can be for some of the city's thousands of foreign domestic helpers.
Takashi Suzuki peels on his wet suit and looks out to sea. The waves are good and the water's not too crowded, with only a dozen or so other surfers riding the waves.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, which took place from November 26-29.
A court in eastern China said it will deliver the much anticipated verdict in the corruption trial of fallen high-flying politician Bo Xilai on Sunday.
The Pakistani city of Lahore is known as the heritage capital of the country. It's scattered with ancient mosques, majestic 16th century mansions and antique minarets. Lahorites are proud of their cultural legacy.
A mother forced to drown her own baby and a prison camp inmate compelled to eat rodents and lizards just to survive -- these are some of the horrific experiences documented by a United Nations inquiry into human rights violations in North Korea.
In the first ruling of its kind in Japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of four of five children who were killed after staff put them on a bus that drove straight into the path of an oncoming tsunami.
Muslim rebels in the Philippines briefly took the police chief of Zamboanga City captive Tuesday.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court has sentenced a prominent leader of the country's largest Islamist party to death for "crimes against humanity"
A man who tried to swim across a river to North Korea was killed by a rain of bullets fired at him by South Korean soldiers, a military official said.
Here's a look at the life of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India.
A volcano in Indonesia prompted the evacuation of more than 6,000 people this weekend, blanketing buildings and cars in ashes, emergency officials said Monday.
Philippine soldiers are trying to close the noose on more than 100 Muslim rebels who have been holding scores of people hostage in a major city
A roadside bomb killed a top Pakistani general Sunday just a day after officials announced plans to withdraw troops from a war-ravaged region.
A senior female police officer in Afghanistan has died after being shot by two unidentified gunmen in the southern province of Helmand, authorities said Monday.
The joint industrial park, one of the key symbols of cooperation between North and South Korea, re-opened Monday after a five-month hiatus.
Japan's only operating nuclear reactor will be shut down for maintenance before Monday, leaving the country with no nuclear supply for the 2nd time in 40 years.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the events in Beijing, China's Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989.
Anticipation hung heavier than the sultry air outside the massive court complex Friday afternoon. People awaited the decision from Courtroom No. 304.
An Indian court on Friday sentenced four men to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi.
A cease-fire has been forged between the Philippines army and separatists.
More than 40 years after he was abducted from a fishing boat and taken to North Korea, a South Korean fisherman has escaped, returning to his native country.
The U.S. consulate in Afghanistan's Herat province Friday was rocked by a blast as militants and security forces engaged in a firefight, officials said.
A cease-fire has been forged between the Philippines army and separatists.
The U.S. consulate in Afghanistan's Herat province Friday was rocked by a blast as militants and security forces engaged in a firefight, officials said.
In China online popularity can sometimes spell trouble.
Satellite images of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility have again raised questions about whether the country has restarted its plutonium production reactor -- regarded by western experts as a key component in the development of a nuclear weapon.
Sporadic and intermittent gunfire rang out in Zamboanga City for a fourth day on Thursday as armed forces continued to clash with Muslim Moro National Liberation Front rebels holding as many as 180 hostages on the Philippine island of Mindanao.
Prosecutors on Wednesday urged a judge to sentence four men to death after they were convicted of the gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi last year.
Karachi, the financial heart of Pakistan, was shut down Wednesday because of political tension that followed various incidents of violence.
Muslim Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels were holding at least 180 hostages in Zamboanga on Mindanao, Philippine state media said Wednesday.
North and South Korea have agreed to reopen Kaesong Industrial Complex, their joint industrial park, on a trial basis next week, nearly 5 months after it closed
A senior Pakistani official says his country will release Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the founding members of the Afghan Taliban.
Nobel Laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus faced a new government fight Monday as the Cabinet ordered "legal action" against him for what it called "tax irregularities."
Four men are found guilty of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi last year -- a crime that shocked India.
Pakistani political leaders on Monday backed a call to begin peace talks with the country's Taliban.
A roadside bomb hit a bus in Afghanistan's Ghazni province Tuesday, killing seven people and wounding 17 others, a provincial official said.
Philippine police and armed forces negotiated the release of five hostages on Tuesday as a tense stand-off with rebels from the Muslim Moro National Liberation Front entered its second day in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
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