With a slowdown in the American economy and declining household spends in that country, the fate of the world economy ( largely supposed to be dictated by the American...

Pakistan’s army lodged a formal protest Friday to “allied forces” in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that...

Myanmar’s military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching...

The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state...

Cracked dams and buckled roads, collapsed buildings and toppled factories _ China has begun to tally its losses from an earthquake this week that killed thousands and...

The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar’s military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of...

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying riot police in Sri Lanka’s capital Friday, killing 10 people, including eight policemen, and wounding...

A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl was convicted of a lesser charge Friday during a court martial and sentenced to four years in prison in a...

The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week’s powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,500 people.

Suspected Islamic militants have killed a Pakistani soldier in revenge for an alleged U.S. missile strike near the Afghan border, an official said Friday.

The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week’s powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,000 people.

South Korea expects the long-stalled international negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear programs to resume next month, the country’s chief negotiator said...

Clashes in eastern and southern Afghanistan left eight militants dead, and a roadside bomb killed an Afghan soldier, officials said Friday.

The death toll rose to 43 from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across China, a report said Friday.

A bomb blast blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels killed six policemen and wounded 50 people, including civilians, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Friday, the military...

At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was...

Cracked dams and buckled roads, collapsed buildings and toppled factories _ China has begun tallying losses from the calamitous earthquake that struck earlier this...

The military says a bomb explosion has wounded dozens of people in Sri Lanka’s capital.

A police chief says Afghan and foreign troops have killed three militants in eastern Afghanistan.

The U.S. military says a military court has found an American Marine guilty of abusive sexual conduct of a Japanese teenager in Okinawa, southern Japan.