An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale was euthanized by wildlife officials Friday after veterinarians determined that it was too weak to survive on its own.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.
Disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter is on his way to London after spending three days failing to find a country that would let him in, British officials said.
NATO disputes a report published in one of France's major daily newspapers that said French soldiers involved in deadly fighting in Afghanistan this week were struck by NATO airstrikes.
Monsoon flooding has left 50,000 people homeless in Nepal and killed at least 74 people in northern India, according to officials.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited French troops outside the Afghan capital on Wednesday as they mourned the deaths of 10 soldiers killed in fighting with Islamic militants.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Afghanistan on Thursday and underscored his country's support of the fledgling democracy --under siege this year from a resurgence of Taliban militants.
For the first time that sumo wrestling's governing body can recall, one of its revered athletes has been nabbed for drug possession.
Police say two suicide bombers have killed at least 15 people and wounded another 50 at a government arms factory near the Pakistani capital.
A bomb placed in a car exploded in western Turkey Thursday just as two buses carrying police officers and soldiers were passing by.
An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale was euthanized by wildlife officials Friday after veterinarians determined that it was too weak to survive on its own.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.
Disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter is on his way to London after spending three days failing to find a country that would let him in, British officials said.
NATO disputes a report published in one of France's major daily newspapers that said French soldiers involved in deadly fighting in Afghanistan this week were struck by NATO airstrikes.
Monsoon flooding has left 50,000 people homeless in Nepal and killed at least 74 people in northern India, according to officials.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited French troops outside the Afghan capital on Wednesday as they mourned the deaths of 10 soldiers killed in fighting with Islamic militants.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Afghanistan on Thursday and underscored his country's support of the fledgling democracy --under siege this year from a resurgence of Taliban militants.
For the first time that sumo wrestling's governing body can recall, one of its revered athletes has been nabbed for drug possession.
Police say two suicide bombers have killed at least 15 people and wounded another 50 at a government arms factory near the Pakistani capital.
A bomb placed in a car exploded in western Turkey Thursday just as two buses carrying police officers and soldiers were passing by.
A British Embassy official says Prime Minister Gordon Brown has arrived in the Afghan capital for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai.
Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration.
Disgraced British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, was denied entry to Hong Kong after refusing to return to England, officials said Wednesday.
Police say at least 74 people have been killed as heavy monsoon rains lash northern India.
Landslides and floods triggered by Typhoon Nuri in the northern Philippines have killed seven people before it started moving toward Hong Kong.
Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng died Wednesday, state-run media reported. Hua was communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom.
Disgraced British glam rocker Gary Glitter has boarded a flight to Hong Kong after a standoff with Thai authorities when he refused to board a plane to England.
More than a dozen insurgents died on Wednesday during a battle in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A monkey stopped morning commuters in their tracks at one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations this week, as it curiously peered down at them from its perch atop the departures and arrivals board.
An abandoned baby whale that has been trying to suckle from yachts in an Australian harbor appeared to be weakening Wednesday as wildlife workers considered ways to save it.
The Islamic militant movement, the Taliban, claimed responsibility for an explosion at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan and warned of more attacks unless the military halts its offensive against insurgents in the region, state media reported.
British glam rocker Gary Glitter remained confined in the transit lounge of a Bangkok, Thailand, airport Wednesday while officials negotiated with him to get on a flight to London, England.
A bomb blast at a hospital in northwest Pakistan killed at least 23 people Tuesday, authorities said. Another 15 to 20 were injured.
Authorities freed British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement.
A powerful typhoon packing winds of 87 mph (140 kph) battered the northern Philippines with heavy rains Wednesday, closing schools and putting authorities on alert for flash floods and landslides.
Leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition were meeting Tuesday to discuss who will replace President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned Monday.
Ten French soldiers were killed Tuesday in fighting near the Afghan capital of Kabul after 100 insurgents attacked a patrol, authorities said.
An Iraqi sprinter whose coach had to bribe militiamen so she could train. A Palestinian swimmer unable to use the Olympic-size pool nearest her home. A pioneering runner from war-wracked Afghanistan who placed last in the 100 meters.
With food prices rising, one of India's poorest states is considering adding rat meat to the menus of state-run canteens, a move officials in Bihar say could help provide cheap protein for the state's 80 million people, most of whom live off the land as poor sharecroppers or subsistence farmers.
The resignation of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has been accepted with immediate effect by national lawmakers, a Pakistan official said.
The United States and Britain praised Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's contribution to the war on terror while the Bush administration claimed no role in the leader's resignation Monday.
The Philippine weather bureau is reporting Typhoon Nuri is on track to make landfall over the northern provinces within the next 24 hours.
Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.
Four members of a Christian group from the United States are refusing to leave an airport in China after authorities confiscated their 300 Bibles, the group's director said Monday.
Authorities tightened security in Kabul for Afghanistan's Independence Day celebration Monday amid "credible intelligence" that attacks were planned against civilian, military and government targets, according to the commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has announced his resignation after weeks of pressure to relinquish power. But where does this leave Pakistan and the man who led it for almost a decade? Will the impeachment process continue against Musharraf? Musharraf has made many enemies since he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, deposing then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
A man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency was sworn in Monday as Nepal's new prime minister.
China Southern Locomotive, the country's biggest train manufacturer, saw its shares peak in their Monday trading debut at 83 percent above the initial public offering price and then fall back as the broader market extended its losses.
Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.
A Swedish wrestler who discarded his bronze medal in a protest during the presentation ceremony has been stripped of the award and disqualified from the tournament in Beijing.
According to one famous quote, how many years would Man have left to live on Earth if the bees died off?
She was "The Korean Seductress Who Betrayed America," a Seoul socialite said to have charmed secret information out of one lover, an American colonel, and passed it to another, a top communist in North Korea.
Aquatic ecologist Magdy Khalil has the most unusual of jobs. He's traveling from community to community along the river Nile, teaching Egyptian fishermen and farmers about the American crayfish.
With rising energy prices and the global biofuel rush already putting pressure on food prices, more news that some countries' food supplies are being threatened from other corners is never welcome. But new research from the British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) released last week seemed to promise exactly that.
Ain Shams University Biologist Hebat Abdel Hadi is taking "waste not, want not" to a whole other level.
Pakistan's ruling coalition finalized impeachment charges against President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday and a government minister said they could be filed as early as this week if he does not resign first.
Security was tightened in and around Kabul on Sunday with 7,000 additional police officers deployed ahead of Monday's 89th observance of Afghanistan's independence from Great Britain.
An explosion detonated Sunday evening at the home of Nepal's first-ever vice president, who ignited a wave of protests last month after taking the oath of office in the Hindi language.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is calling on his country's youth to get married younger and have more children.
A top ruling party official has given Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf a two-day deadline to quit or face impeachment proceedings.
The Sri Lankan military says it has captured a massive Tamil Tiger training base with underground bunkers, lecture halls and a cemetery.
For Sebastian Coe, one of Britain's greatest athletes, the glory of winning Olympic gold medals comes in second to clinching the Olympics Games for London in 2012.
Ten members of a banned Islamic group were arrested Saturday in connection with a series of bombings last month in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, police said, according to CNN sister network CNN-IBN.
Police have arrested the alleged mastermind of serial bombings last month in western India that killed 58 people and have linked him to a banned Islamic group, an official said Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Muslims marched in India's portion of Kashmir on Saturday in honor of a prominent separatist leader killed in a recent wave of violence that has rocked the volatile Himalayan region.
Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains has struck areas of Myanmar still recovering from a cyclone that killed more than 84,000 people, a state-run newspaper said Saturday.
A month-long stand-off between Thai and Cambodian troops around an ancient temple in a disputed border region eased a bit with an agreement to withdraw many of the soldiers, a Thai military official said Saturday.
Air force jets have pounded Tamil Tiger fortifications in northern Sri Lanka, destroying a rebel bunker line as fighting intensified in the country's civil war, the military said.
Thai and Cambodian troops were ending a monthlong standoff Saturday as both sides continued to withdraw troops from disputed territory around an ancient border temple, a Cambodian official said.
Malaysia's top opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filed nomination papers Saturday for a Parliament by-election that he is expected to win easily -- the first step in his bid to bring down the government and become prime minister.
Two soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force died Friday after an attack in eastern Afghanistan, the ISAF said.
The leader of Nepal's former communist rebels was named as the country's new prime minister Friday.
Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake's ecosystem.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes in northern Sri Lanka in recent weeks as the military ramped up its offensive against the Tamil Tiger rebels' heartland, international aid groups said.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is negotiating through "back-channel contacts" to reach a compromise that would let him avoid impeachment, according to an official with the pro-Musharraf political party, PML-Q.
A Canadian schoolteacher who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to three years and three months in jail in Thailand.
Five activists protesting on behalf of Tibet, including three Americans, were arrested Thursday for what Chinese police called "activities against Chinese law" and will be deported, Beijing police said.
Beijing has undergone a massive construction blitz in the seven years since the city was awarded the Olympic Games.
Three coalition service members were killed on Thursday in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.
A photo of the Spanish men's Olympics basketball team, using their index fingers as if to slant their eyes, has sparked controversy with Asian rights groups.
A bus carrying mostly school children skidded off a waterlogged road and into a southern Indian river Thursday, killing at least 11 people, including seven children, police say.
Two people involved in a crash near the Olympic rowing venue have died, the Beijing Olympic organizing committee said Thursday.
Rebuilding China's earthquake-devastated areas is expected to cost $147 billion, a government report released this week said.
Former glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter will be deported back to Britain on Tuesday after being released from prison in Vietnam, his lawyer said.
Government workers throughout Aichi Prefecture in western Japan heard a message saying there was a ballistic missile attack after it was mistakenly played.
A British journalist and eight Tibet activists were detained during a protest near an Olympic venue Wednesday, the journalist and an activist group said.
As Pakistan celebrated 61 years of independence, embattled President Pervez Musharraf called Thursday for political reconciliation, and gave no indication of the growing possibility of his impeachment or that he might step down.
The Thai government on Wednesday began preparing to request the extradition of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who returned to exile in Britain after missing a court appearance earlier this week.
The Taliban said its gunmen opened fire on an aid group's vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four International Rescue Committee workers and prompting the organization to suspend its operations.
A dilapidated building collapsed in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people who had defied orders to vacate the structure, a police spokesman told CNN.
Violent protests continued across Kashmir Wednesday, as the death toll from the past two days of demonstrations rose to 20, a senior police official said.
If there's one thing that makes Beijing an enticing city to both local and expatriate Beijingers alike, it's the food.
Police say at least 11 people have been killed and 30 others injured when a portion of a five-story building collapsed after heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
Cassie Phillips is in Battambang, Cambodia, where she will be working with the NGO Homeland.
An investigation of Qantas Airways will be expanded after the company announced it temporarily pulled six aircraft from service because of irregularities in maintenance records, Australia's airline safety body said Wednesday.
The third of Pakistan's four provincial assemblies passed a resolution Wednesday calling for Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to step down or face impeachment.
A bus crash Tuesday in northwest China killed 25 passengers, most of them students, state-run media reported.
Cambodia's genocide tribunal formally indicted a former prison chief of the country's notorious Khmer Rouge, paving the way for a historic trial.
Japan's foreign ministry says it has reached an agreement with North Korea to reinvestigate the kidnappings of Japanese nationals.
American swimmer Michael Phelps remains on course for his target of eight Beijing gold medals after winning his third event of the Games, taking the men's 200-meter freestyle in a new world record time -- his third in a row.
It's a historic event taking place on an international stage that's been seven years and $40 billion in the making.
An attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region killed three members of the security force and wounded a fourth, state media reported Tuesday.
A little girl and her song captivated millions of viewers during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But what they saw was not what they heard.
Baby Manjhi has no nationality, no legal mother and no clear path home from India to Japan to a father and grandmother who desperately want her.
The second of Pakistan's four provincial assemblies has passed a resolution calling for President Pervez Musharraf to step down or face impeachment.
A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched "Ode to the Motherland," a ceremony official said.
China's official news agency say three officers have been killed in a knife attack at a security checkpoint in the country's restive Xinjiang region.
At least six people were killed and 55 hurt Tuesday in clashes between Indian police and villagers protesting in three communities in India-controlled Kashmir, police said.
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