AFP - Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in to parliament Thursday, ending a decade-long political exile and taking another step towards his plan of ...
AFP - Chinese government departments embezzled, misused or mismanaged billions of dollars last year, the nation's auditor said in an annual report that often leads to ...
AFP - At least 10 people, including police officers and prison staff, died in a suicide attack Thursday in a garrison town in northwest Pakistan as they headed to work...
AFP - Philippine troops on Thursday overran a rebel Muslim stronghold in the south of the country after weeks of fighting that has left about 150 dead, a military spok...
AP - Demonstrators occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office formed human chains around their leaders Thursday, hoping to prevent their arrest for organizin...
AFP - The world's biggest steelmaker, Arcelor Mittal, has agreed to set up an electrical steel joint venture with Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group, a listed unit of th...
AP - China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, according to a sta...
Reuters - A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus traveled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.
AFP - Thousands of Thai protesters trying to bring down the prime minister again defied orders Thursday to end their siege of government offices, forming human shields...
Reuters - Caterpillar Inc expects weakness in rich-country economies to persist into 2009 but its sales in China remain strong, Jim Owens, chairman and chief execu...
Reuters - To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, backed by ...
Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the world's most powerful woman for the third straight year, topping Forbes magazine's 2008 list of the top 100 women base...
AP - Dissidents in Malaysia's ruling party clamored for the prime minister to resign Wednesday after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim returned to Parliament with a swee...
AFP - South Korea's defence chief warned the military Thursday to be on guard against North Korean spies, following the arrest of a woman defector accused of espionage...
AFP - Taiwan has acquired 60 Harpoon anti-ship missiles from the United States in a boost of its defence against rival China, the defence ministry here said Thursday.
AFP - Dating customs and street demonstrations are part of a major culture shock for young North Korean refugees struggling to adapt to a new life in South Korea, a re...
AFP - Central Asian power brokers including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao were set to meet here Thursday for a summit overshadowed ...
AP - Two U.S. servicemen and several contractors exchanged nearly $100,000 to arrange contracts worth more than $1 million at an airfield in Afghanistan, according to ...
AP - Government forces killed two Islamic rebels believed to have taken seven hostages, but a third insurgent still held out in the mainly Hindu city of Jammu in India...
AP - The Group of Seven industrialized democracies condemned Russia on Wednesday for its actions in Georgia, underlining the country's growing estrangement from the West.
Reuters - The top U.S. Marine officer said on Wednesday he could reduce his 25,000-strong force in the former al Qaeda stronghold of Iraq's Anbar province to reinfor...
AP - Russia could cut poultry and pork import quotas by hundreds of thousands of tons, the country's agriculture minister said Wednesday. The move could hit American p...
Reuters - Suspected Muslim militants who slipped across the border from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir were shot dead by security forces after they killed six people in ...
Reuters - Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni led India to their maiden one-day series triumph in Sri Lanka, winning the fourth one-day international by 46 runs to take an un...
Reuters - The International Cricket Council (ICC) hailed Don Bradman as "a byword for brilliance" on Wednesday, the centenary of the cricketer's birth.
Reuters - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, is exhausted and has cancelled two foreign trips to rest and undergo medical tests, his aide said on Wed...
AP - Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spre...
Reuters - Researchers have transformed ordinary cells into insulin-producing cells in a living mouse, improving symptoms of diabetes in a major step towards regenerati...
Reuters - The Russian navy will make more use of Syrian ports as part of increased military presence in the Mediterranean, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday.
AP - The murder case was supposed to be simple: A jobless man accused of killing six police officers in a rare stabbing rampage in China's largest city.
AP - 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, p...
AFP - Russia on Wednesday lashed out against Western criticism of its actions in Georgia as President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the situation in the Caucasus with his ...
AFP - Bank of Beijing aims to become China's first city commercial bank to enter the fund management business, planning a joint venture with Canada's Bank of Nova Scot...
AP - A key civil nuclear agreement between Russia and the U.S. looks likely to be shelved until next year at the earliest amid mounting tensions over the fate of Georg...
AFP - Police found the bullet-ridden body of a Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after he was kidnapped, as scores of rebels died in bloody clashe...
AP - Earnings results announced Wednesday by major Chinese oil companies were in line with expectations, with industry leader PetroChina's first-half net profit fallin...
AFP - A Taiwanese tycoon Wednesday rejected bribery allegations over the acquisition of a department store in the latest chapter of a money-laundering scandal implicat...
