U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean and Japanese counterparts warned North Korea against "provocative" moves Sunday.
The ear-splitting crack of 101 rounds of artillery will mark the final moment before late Cambodian King-Father Norodom Sihanouk is cremated Monday in a specially built crematorium outside the Royal Palace.
Militants attacked an army base in Pakistan in an assault that resulted in an hours-long gun battle that left 35 people dead on Saturday, officials said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people Friday in the center of a northern Pakistan city, police and hospital officials said.
A truck carrying fireworks on an expressway bridge in central China exploded Friday, causing part of the bridge to collapse.
A forlorn and frightened pygmy elephant calf, reaching out its trunk to touch its dead mother.
Kim Jin Young peered through powerful binoculars across the last frontier of the Cold War.
A court in southwestern China has given heavy sentences to two ethnic Tibetans convicted of murder for "inciting" people to set themselves of fire
A 224-foot-long U.S. warship will have to be cut into smaller pieces to get it off a Philippine reef, where it grounded two weeks ago.
A pro-democracy activist released from a Vietnamese prison was on his way to his California home after nine months in detention, according to his family.
It is nothing short of a miracle that Malala Yousafzai is still alive and even more astounding that she suffered no brain damage.
Gunmen killed seven people Wednesday in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, and two more died in a bomb blast in Karachi, police said.
North Korea's intention to carry out a new nuclear test, coming on the heels of December's successful satellite launch, suggests that Pyongyang is moving forward toward developing a nuclear warhead and a deliverable missile system, experts say. The question remains: How close are they?
Hazardous smog was covering Beijing on Tuesday, reducing visibility to less than 200 meters (200 yards) in parts of Chinese capital while forcing the cancellation of airline flights and the closure of highways, Chinese state media reported.
South Korea said it had successfully put a satellite in orbit on Wednesday, giving a lift to its homegrown space industry
The wave of anti-Japanese protests currently sweeping across China has its roots in history but more recently can be traced back to April, when the firebrand governor of Tokyo announced plans to buy a group of islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan.
A boat carrying Taiwanese activists to diputed islands has been repelled by water cannon fired by the Japanese Coast Guard
Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia said Wednesday that national elections would take place in September, giving unusually lengthy notice to voters.
At least 19 people were killed in Indonesia during two separate landslides brought on by heavy rains, national disaster officials said.
Heavy flooding in Australia caused by torrential rains has forced mass evacuations from towns along the country's east coast, with critically-ill patients and newborns from one hospital being airlifted to safety.
Health workers administering polio vaccinations came under fresh attack in Pakistan on Wednesday
The sixth suspect in the gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old woman is a minor and will be tried in juvenile court, police said Monday.
In a dangerous nighttime trek, Syrians walk across the border to Jordan, carrying what they can as they try to escape Syria's civil war.
An Australian teenager reported missing two months ago has been found alive in dense bushland not far from his home, local police say.
Seven female workers were killed Saturday afternoon in yet another fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh's capital, police said.
The tanks of a U.S. Navy warship stuck on a Philippine reef have been pumped full of seawater to keep the vessel stable while salvage ships approach.
A suicide bomber targeted a crowd of police in the Afghan city of Kunduz Saturday, killing 10 police officers, the provincial police chief told CNN.
"Troubling and counterproductive" rhetoric from North Korea is inflaming tensions on the Korean peninsula, the U.S. envoy to North Korea said Friday.
The U.S Navy minesweeper that grounded on a Philippine reef last week has taken on water and sustained too much damage to be towed off, the Navy says.
Pakistan is holding some 700 suspected militants without trial in internment camps along the Afghan border, Pakistan's Attorney General told the Supreme Court
Sri Lanka will limit the amount of women that go to Saudi Arabia to work as housemaids as outrage continues over Saudi Arabia's beheading of a Sri Lankan teen.
December's controversial launch marked a significant development in North Korea's rocket program after successfully deploying what Pyongyang claimed was a satellite in orbit.
North Korea says it plans to carry out a new nuclear test and more long-range rocket launches, which it said are a part of a new confrontation with the U.S.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning North Korea's recent rocket launch and expanding existing U.N. sanctions.
High in a rugged, mountainous region in Myanmar's north, the country's army remains locked in a conflict that seems to contradict the image of a nation committed to abandoning its brutal past.
The Indian Supreme Court is to hear a plea from one of the accused in the gang rape of a woman in Delhi to move the case outside the city
A Canadian man is accused of opening fire in a court building in the Philippines, killing two people and wounding himself and one other
A Thai court sentenced a political activist to 10 years in prison for insulting the country's revered king, a decision criticized by the European Union.
Nanjing, a city of 8 million in eastern China, is the capital of the coastal Jiangsu Province.
The Philippines raised the stakes in its maritime territorial dispute with China by announcing Tuesday it is taking the case to an international tribunal.
A 56-year-old British woman caught smuggling blocks of cocaine in her suitcase has been sentenced to death in Indonesia.
Britain's Prince Harry has acknowledged that he killed Taliban insurgents on his latest tour of duty in Afghanistan as a crew member of an Apache attack helicopter.
A U.S. Navy minesweeper is still stuck in a reef off the Philippines teeming with endangered marine species, prompting a U.S. apology.
A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 people were injured Tuesday when an earthquake hit the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, according to a government agency.
The Indian Supreme Court is to hear a plea from one of the accused in the gang rape of a woman in Delhi to move the case outside the city
An Indian fast-track court on Monday began hearing the case of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman.
Japanese police say they arrested a U.S. sailor who rang doorbells in the middle of the night before breaking into a woman's property
Explosions rang out across central Kabul on Monday morning after a group of Taliban insurgents stormed the headquarters of the city's traffic police.
A round-the-world yachtsman is on his way to dry land after spending almost three days adrift in a life raft buffeted by strong winds and rough seas off the southern coast of Australia.
Nestled among the granite peaks of eastern Hong Kong a new, man-made mountain is emerging.
"Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in...." my wife Ana blurted into a song this week, as she gazed eastwards through the window of our apartment in downtown Beijing.
Heavy flooding in Jakarta this week has killed 11 people, driven thousands more from their homes and paralyzed large parts of the city.
Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The Japanese government criticizes ex-Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's acknowledgment of a "territorial dispute" with China over islands in the East China Sea.
The U.S. Navy has evacuated all 79 crew members from a minesweeper that ran aground Thursday on a reef in the Philippines, the Navy's Seventh Fleet said Friday.
The case against five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi has been moved to a fast-track court for trial.
A cleric leading a huge protest in Pakistan reached a deal with the government to dissolve the assembly and set new elections.
As a young artist, Bharti Kher traveled to New Delhi on the toss of a coin. Today, she is one of India's leading artists.
With a steady hand, Myanmar Red Cross volunteer Tin Tin Wae, 22, measures out chlorine powder, adds it to a large bucket of water and begins to stir. This will eventually reach some of the 100,000 displaced people in Rakhine state who have been forced from their homes after violence swept through their communities in 2012.
A candidate for the Indonesian Supreme Court has fueled outrage by suggesting that rape victims enjoy being violated.
The Taliban took responsibility Wednesday for an attack near an Afghan security agency in Kabul that killed a soldier and wounded 30 other people.
An acrid blanket of gray shrouded the Chinese capital for a third day Sunday, leading to a rare smog warning as the index hit record levels.
Schoolchildren were ordered to halt outdoor sports activities until Tuesday this week, as a dirty cloud of smog continued to shroud China's capital.
A woman who Australia deems to be a national security risk has given birth to a child who is likely to spend the early months, if not years, of his life in detention.
With the lofty dreams of Everest climbers come a trail of trash that threatens the peak's environment. A group is turning that into artwork for sale.
In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.
The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the country's prime minister over accusations he received kickbacks in a previous job.
Supporters of a Muslim cleric who wants Pakistan's leaders thrown out in favor of a caretaker government waited for him to address them in Islamabad on Tuesday after a deadline he set for the current administration to step down expired.
Long before Europeans got to Australia, people from India arrived on the continent and interbred with the population there, a study says
A darkened room in a Hong Kong university building is an unlikely portal into an ancient world.
A Muslim cleric leading a self-proclaimed movement to clean up politics in Pakistan by installing a caretaker administration called on supporters to join him.
Afghan elders will decide whether any U.S. military who stay in the country after 2014 will be granted immunity from prosecution, President Hamid Karzai told reporters Monday in his palace.
Indian police detained six men in an alleged gang rape similar to a recent assault that sparked an international outrage.
"Terrorism and violence cannot be permissible in Islam," Tahir ul Qadri told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in 2010 after declaring a Fatwa on terrorism.
After days sitting in freezing temperatures next to their slain loved ones, the families of dozens of bombing victims will end their protest and bury the bodies
Picture the scene: dozens of computer hackers poring over their keyboards in a room filled with powerful computers, feverishly typing in code most of us could never comprehend.
This is not worksafe. It's a hyperlink to Hiropon, the pornographic fiberglass creation of Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami.
Members of the Shiite community in Quetta, Pakistan, protesting bombing deaths last week by lining up victims' bodies at major intersections, police say.
A roadside bomb struck an army convoy in northwest Pakistan, killing 14 soldiers and wounding 25 others Sunday, officials said.
A Tibetan man protesting China's rule of the region set himself on fire Saturday
Chinese emergency workers toiled on steep, frigid slopes Friday looking for three missing after a devastating landslide that killed at least 43 others.
A bus plunged down a steep slope Saturday in Nepal killing at least 30 people and injuring 13 more, police said.
One-month-old baby girl Khushi, which means "happiness" in Hindi, would not have been alive had her mother, Sumanjeet, given in to pressure from some relatives and neighbors.
A three-day mourning period began Friday in a southwestern Pakistani province where a series of bomb blasts killed nearly 100 people the previous day in Quetta.
Pakistan called on India Friday to investigate what it called repeated violations by Indian soldiers along the de facto border in Kashmir.
A fire swept through a hotel early Friday in a resort in the northern Philippines, killing six people including some U.S. citizens.
In China, the "little emperors" may have no clothes, at least when it comes to economic risk-taking and being conscientious workers.
The Chinese newspaper at the center of a censorship storm hit newsstands in the capital Thursday for the first time since journalists went on strike in protest against apparent editorial interference from the government.
A series of blasts in the city of Quetta in southwest Pakistan killed 93 people and wounded 169 Thursday, police said.
The father of the woman whose rape and fatal beating provoked outrage across India and worldwide says his daughter's death "brought an awakening to society."
The first ever video footage of a giant squid swimming in the ocean depths is "an enormous breakthrough," according to a prominent marine conservationist.
India and Pakistan traded bitter accusations Wednesday after New Delhi said Pakistani troops had killed two of its soldiers in Kashmir
A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted a militant compound in northwest Pakistan Thursday, killing four people, Pakistani officials said.
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