An explosion killed at least 10 Pakistani police officers Sunday in Islamabad, near a rally marking the first anniversary of the government's raid of the Red Mosque, a police official said.
U.S. President George W. Bush defends his decision to attend next month's Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, saying that to do otherwise "would be an affront to the Chinese people."
With few artifacts remaining at the site of the Angkor temples, a Thai company’s new museum there is being criticized for everything from politics to its displays.
With the help of a New York-based producer, a documentary profiling the life of Palden Gyatso, a 77-year- old former political prisoner in China, will open in August.
Tens of thousands of South Koreans demonstrate on the streets of the capital to protest the government's decision to import what they say is unsafe U.S. beef.
Ahmed Rashid at home in Lahore, Pakistan. An expert on the Taliban, Mr. Rashid has turned out to be something of a prophet in the region, but mostly of the Cassandra type.
The American military said that its airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan hit two vehicles carrying insurgents, while a provincial governor said that civilians had been killed.
The authorities imposed a curfew after more violence erupted among Hindus, Muslims and the police over a land dispute involving a Hindu shrine in India-controlled Kashmir.
North Korea said it would move to the next phase of the denuclearization process only when it has been awarded all the energy and political benefits it had been promised.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan’s nuclear program, said that his country gave centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army.
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Japan’s single-minded dedication to reducing energy use, which dates to the 1970s, has given it the potential to play a rare leadership role on a pressing global issue.
Two officials in southwestern China have been replaced for "severe malfeasance" after a protest involving about 30,000 people descended into a riot, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
The flights, the latest breakthrough in warming cross-strait relations, mark the first time that “ordinary” Chinese citizens will be allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists.
“Kabluey” is a bittersweet indie comedy whose hapless protagonist spends a good part of the movie waddling along the side of a highway in a blue foam-rubber suit.
“Diminished Capacity” touches earnestly on heart-heavy issues of loss: loss of memory, of love and, perhaps because of the local angle, of (or rather by) the Chicago Cubs.
“We Are Together” is another feel-good documentary about a feel-bad topic: the bright-eyed, golden-voiced children of Agape, an orphanage in South Africa.
Armed soldiers enforced martial law on the streets of Mongolia’s capital on Wednesday, a day after five people were killed as hundreds angered by election results rioted.
Only a few weeks ago the Japanese government finally, and unexpectedly, recognized the Ainu, who live on Japan’s northernmost island, as an “indigenous people.”
An interrogation class at Guantánamo Bay was based on a 1957 study of Chinese Communist techniques used to obtain confessions, often false, from U.S. prisoners.
Guillaume Canet’s delicious contemporary thriller “Tell No One” is “Vertigo” meets “The Fugitive” by way of “The Big Sleep.” That is meant as high praise.
President of Mongolia Nambaryn Enkhbayar has declared a state of emergency in the capital after a post-election political rally descended into violence.
China’s deployment of its armed forces to the May earthquake got good marks for public relations, but the effort left some veteran P.L.A.-watchers underwhelmed.
Ms. Baronova was an international ballet star and one of three celebrated prodigies known as the “baby ballerinas” after George Balanchine discovered them in the 1930s.
Afghanistan’s worsening conditions resulted partly from the global surge in food prices and the effects of a drought that has affected major food-producing areas.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has reacted strongly to sodomy accusations, filing a complaint against the police chief and the attorney general and planning a public rally.
Authorities in southwestern China are reopening their investigation into the death of a teenage girl, following violent demonstrations over how it was handled, state-run media reported Tuesday.
“Wall-E,” the Pixar movie, is chock-full of references to Apple products. Perhaps that’s because Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, used to own Pixar.
The text of a decision shows some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments in the case of a detainee held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for more than six years.
The South Korean police raided the offices of two protest groups on Monday and arrested 18 activists trying to block the distribution of American beef.
The agreement, which would give India access to fuel and technology for nuclear power plants, has floundered for several months because of political opposition.
The retailer Toys “R” Us is counting down to July 26, when it begins selling toys from the latest “Star Wars” film, “The Clone Wars,” an animated movie that opens in August.