A cold case involving the poisoning of a college sophomore in Beijing almost two decades ago has captured the imagination of Chinese communities around the world, landing a petition on the White House website and igniting an emotional debate on the pursuit of justice in China.
60 years after the end of the Korean War, Chinese veterans say they have been forgotten as few understand the sacrifices they made on the battlefield.
Violence hit Pakistan's volatile election campaign on Tuesday as this weekend's national polls approach.
Laura Sherburne left her hometown, Boston, on the day of bombings only to confront more tragedy in Bangladesh.
North Korea has withdrawn two mobile ballistic missiles from a launch site in the eastern part of the country, according to a U.S. official
The death toll from the disastrous building collapse in Bangladesh last month has risen above 700, authorities said Tuesday
The Chinese government had stern words for Israel at the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's five-day visit to the country.
Five people have been killed after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant cloud of ash and rocks early Tuesday.
North Korea issued a new threat of military action Tuesday if "even a single shell" from U.S. and South Korean naval exercises fell in its territorial waters.
Malaysia's opposition leader has urged his supporters to wear black at a rally to be held in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to protest Sunday's vote, which he claims "was marred with unprecedented election fraud."
U.S. authorities concluded that a video does show the civilian-operated cargo jet that crashed in Afghanistan last week, a U.S. government official said Monday.
A blast near a political rally killed 18 people and injured 56 Monday in Pakistan, a government official said.
The Visayan Forum Foundation in the Philippines grew out of the determination of its founder, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda helping women and children working as domestic servants. It grew into an internationally recognized anti-trafficking organization. But now its future is in doubt.
Bangladeshi capital wears an eerie calm a day after Islamists battle police
Two N. Korean missiles have been withdrawn from a launch site and sent to storage, a U.S. official confirmed.
The streets of Bangladesh's capital rang with the sound of gunfire, explosions and tear-gas canisters Sunday as Islamist protesters demanding laws against blasphemy battled police, leaving four dead.
Malaysia's ruling party has extended its grip on power after a hotly contested parliamentary vote, the state news agency Bernama reported Sunday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has received assurances from the Central Intelligence Agency that it will continue the delivery of cash
The death toll from the calamitous building collapse that took place in Bangladesh last month has risen to 657
The case of a U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp is not a "political bargaining chip," KCNA reported Sunday.
Poultry workers moving to and from wet markets and farms may be responsible for the spread of the deadly H7N9 virus in China, says a virologist who's working with the World Health Organisation to investigate the outbreak.
Politics might well be a dirty game, but in Malaysia where allegations of vote-buying, sex scandals and violence are a feature of the political landscape, a group of disaffected activists have distilled these predictable shabby tricks into a popular card game.
The death toll has climbed to more than 620 in last month's collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory building, police said Sunday.
Three people were killed and more than 30 injured in explosions near an anti-Taliban party headquarters in Pakistan.
Eight service members were killed in three separate attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO officials said.
Bangladesh's government, industry and workers have presented an "action plan" to improve worker safety.
Police in China have spent three months seizing bogus meat, some of it fake beef or mutton made out of fox, mink and rat, the state news agency Xinhua says.
A preliminary inquiry into the collapse of a building in Bangladesh cites "heavy machinery and high-capacity generators," the state-run news agency says.
A Pentagon report to Congress gives an overview of North Korea's military threat
The sister of a U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp defended her brother, asking leaders of both nations to "see him as one man."
A number of factors were likely involved in Monday's crash of a 747 in Afghanistan, one expert says.
An American military refueling plane took off and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, Kyrgyz and U.S. officials said.
Gunmen in Pakistan killed a leading prosecutor working on high-profile terrorism cases and an anti-Taliban politician and his son, police say.
The last seven South Koreans who remained at a manufacturing complex jointly run by North and South Korea left the area Friday.
The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh last week, which killed more than 500 workers, has highlighted serious issues with safety and poor pay for garment workers in the country. As our graphic illustrates, there are stark contrasts in the cost of making clothes in Bangladesh, compared to the U.S.
Bangladesh's prime minister acknowledged Thursday that her nation's garment industry has problems, but said her government was moving rapidly to fix them.
The crash of a cargo plane that killed all seven crew members Monday in Afghanistan appears to have been captured on a dashboard camera.
India expressed "great anguish" over the death of one of its citizens following an attack in a Pakistani jail, calling for an investigation into what happened.
An American man detained in North Korea since last November has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, North Korean state news reported Thursday.
The death toll from the building collapse near the Bangladeshi capital last week has risen above 400.
A week after the news of a child rape sparked protests in India, hospital officials confirmed the rape of another girl.
A moderate earthquake killed one person and injured 59 others in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, a government statement said.
A cargo plane crash in Afghanistan killed all seven Americans on board Monday.
(CNN) -- The three coalition soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday are British, the Defence Ministry said.
New Zealand releases list of banned names
A court in Pakistan has banned former President Pervez Musharraf from politics for life.
Allan Yang would be a success story in any country.
Anger in Bangladesh grew over claims by international agencies that their offers of help had been turned down.
Joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States officially ended Tuesday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.
(CNN) -- Three coalition service members in Afghanistan died Tuesday after a bombing attack, ISAF said.
At some point in the next few months, a tendril of black tar-like substance will drop from a glass funnel and land in a beaker under a bell jar in what is thought to be the world's oldest scientific experiment.
Gunmen killed a political candidate and three other people in Pakistan on Tuesday, adding to a growing casualty toll ahead of the country's elections next month
Nepalese authorities say they're investigating reports that a fight broke out on Saturday between Sherpas and climbers on Mount Everest.
After so much horror and heartache, the woman's death was more than the rescue workers could take.
"I feel the need ... the need for speed!" Those infamous words spoken by Maverick and Goose in the movie "Top Gun" enter my head as I walk across the tarmac to the fighter jet that I will soon fly in.
North Korea plans to begin a trial against a U.S. citizen detained there last year, state media said Saturday, complicating relations between the two nations.
Bangladesh's Cabinet decided to inspect the safety and security measures of all garment factories Monday after last week's deadly building collapse.
It's not everyday someone asks you if you'd be prepared to ride in a fighter jet but when my producer put the question to me several weeks ago I jumped at it.
At least eight people were killed Sunday as the Pakistani Taliban continued to attack candidates in that country's upcoming elections, authorities said.
A man in a motorcycle detonated explosives Monday near a police van in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six people and wounding more than 30, police said.
Four NATO service members killed over the weekend in a plane crash in southern Afghanistan were Americans.
North Korea plans to begin a trial against a U.S. citizen detained there last year, state media said Saturday, complicating relations between the two nations.
Officials wielding infrared thermometers are becoming more difficult to avoid at entry points from mainland China as Hong Kong strengthens its defenses against the H7N9 strain of bird flu.
Buoyed by hope, authorities in Bangladesh have decided to put off moving from a rescue operation to a recovery one in the Savar building collapse.
Getting an introduction to Tiger - a 176 pound (80 kilogram) Tibetan mastiff kept on the roof space of a cramped five-story village house in Hong Kong's New Territories -- is a complicated process.
More than 72 hours into the Savar disaster, rescuers shout for help, drilling machines rattle, the ambulance sirens wail and people cry aloud for their missing relatives, colleagues and friends.
The Taliban have launched their spring offensive, their annual spate of attacks targeting foreign bases, government officials and Afghan police, the group said
Rescuers pull out a woman who had given birth in the debris of a collapsed Bangladeshi building
South Korea started withdrawing its last remaining citizens Saturday from the manufacturing zone jointly operated with North Korea
A bus collided with fuel tanker in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing at least 45 people and injuring 10, local officials said.
North Korea has arrested a U.S. citizen for committing an unspecified crime against the country, state media reported Friday, 10 days after U.S. officials said an American had been detained by the reclusive nation.
Rescuers tunneling Friday into the rubble of the eight-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Bangladesh discovered 50 trapped survivors.
An explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, killed at least eight people and injured more than 20, Karachi authorities said late Friday.
Four policemen were killed in a militant ambush in Indian-administered Kashmir Friday afternoon, police said.
On the same day yet another death was reported in China's bird flu outbreak, the World Health Organization warned the H7N9 virus was one of the most lethal that doctors and medical investigators had faced in recent years.
Seoul has decided to pull out all its remaining citizens from the manufacturing zone it jointly operates with Pyongyang.
Gunmen opened fire on a local mayor and his supporters as they campaigned in southern Philippines, killing 10 people and wounding nine others, authorities said Friday.
More than a day after a Bangladesh building collapsed, rescuers searched for survivors as thousands took to the streets to protest lax safety conditions.
Both sides in Syria's civil war were in rare agreement Wednesday: The minaret at a 12th-century mosque in Aleppo has been obliterated.
South Korea warned North Korea of serious consequences if it rejects an offer to hold talks about the dire situation at their shared manufacturing zone
South Korea warned North Korea of serious consequences if it rejects an offer to hold talks about the dire situation at their shared manufacturing zone
Clashes in the unsettled western Chinese region of Xinjiang killed 21 people, including police officers and local officials, authorities said Wednesday.
An eight-story building collapsed Wednesday on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 123 people and injuring more than 1,000.
At least nine people were killed and more than 100 injured in an earthquake on Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Japan said eight Chinese government ships had entered waters around a group of islands at the heart of a territorial dispute between the two nations
The leader of the hacking group LulzSec has been charged in connection with an attack on a government website in early April, Australian police officials said Wednesday.
At least five people were killed and 37 wounded in a suicide blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday night, police said.
Investigators are looking into a six-month trip last year to Russia by Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Research into the H7N9 virus suggests the risk of contracting serious illness rises with age and that more people may be infected than the 105 cases reported, according to a study by the Hong Kong University.
Indian police have arrested a second man in connection with the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, a police spokesman said Monday.
A week of diplomacy is set to begin in Washington, Beijing and Pyongyang. But the sides are so far apart, it you can't predict where the diplomacy will lead.
Four months after a vicious gang rape left a 23-year-old physiotherapy student dead and triggered a national outcry over the treatment of women, more protests ignited in New Delhi after another brutal rape -- this time the victim was a five-year-old girl.
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