Pakistani and Afghan officials say security forces killed five people in southeastern Afghanistan near the two countries' border.
A woman who spent 16 days at the bottom of a well in central China after falling in says she survived by eating raw corn and drinking rainwater.
A Chinese astronaut says China is willing to open its future space station to foreign astronauts and even train them for such missions.
A Chinese court says it will deliver a verdict against the disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai on Sunday.
Life in a southern Philippine city at the center of a 10-day hostage crisis is slowly returning to normal, after troops went house-to-house searching for the remaining Muslim...
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal says the U.N.
Police have arrested a laborer who approached China's second-richest man to ask for a job and then attacked and injured the company chairman when he denied the request.
An Afghan official says a gunman has killed the head of the election commission in an eastern province.
North Korea's leading nuclear envoy is calling for a new round of six-nation denuclearization talks without preconditions.
Jordan's King Abdullah is calling on China to exercise its influence to help resolve the conflict in Syria.
South Korea's most tenacious protesters compare themselves to warriors, and their demonstrations to a life-or-death struggle against evil.
Supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party clashed with police Wednesday amid a nationwide strike called to protest a court's ruling that one of the opposition party's...
The price of oil rose Wednesday, regaining some of the ground lost this week as oil traders prepared for an expected reduction in the U.S. Federal Reserve's massive monetary...
A court in Thailand has convicted a dual Lebanese-Swedish citizen of illegal possession of bomb-making materials that he was storing in a warehouse outside Bangkok.
Tony Abbott was sworn in as Australia's new prime minister on Wednesday and promised immediate action to slow the stream of asylum seekers arriving by boats from Indonesia and...
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