. . MANILA – Pressure on China over its claims to most of the strategic South China Sea went up a couple of notches this week....
. . HENAN — A two-story building collapsed into rubble while workers were trying to prop up the second floor during renovations in central China, killing...
. . ISMAILIA – A Russian passenger plane carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew members has crashed on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg,...
. . BEIJING – Chinese Admiral Wu Shengli told his U.S. counter part Admiral John Richardson that a minor incident could spark war in the South...
. . BEIJING – China’s Communist party will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child...
. . MIAMI – The photo of a naked young girl howling as napalm scorched her skin is seared into America’s consciousness. She is the indelible...
. . KUALA LUMPUR – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that human rights in Malaysia have deteriorated under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration despite his...
. . SOUTH CHINA SEA – The United States Navy has sent the guided-missile destroyer, USS Lassen, near China’s reclaimed islands in the disputed South China...
. . HONG KONG – Investigators still did not know what caused Sunday’s accident, when a high-speed ferry from Macau to Hong Kong hit an “unidentified...
. . TOFINO – Five people have died after a whale watching vessel sank in the icy cold waters off the coast of Tofino, B.C. Canada,...
. . LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was partly responsible for the emergence of the Islamic State...
. . CEBU – The Chinese consular officer and her husband, who allegedly killed two other Chinese diplomats and wounded their consul-general in a Philippines restaurant,...
. . SEOUL– An 88-year-old South Korean woman sobbed uncontrollably as she embraced her crying 64-year-old son, whom Seoul says was abducted by the North in...
FRANCE – At least 42 pensioners are dead after a bus carrying the elderly day-trippers collided head-on with a truck and caught fire near...
International Hackers group calling themselves Anonymous have struck Thailand’s government run CAT Telecom agency and published sensitive information, amid uncertainty over the government’s plan to establish...
. . An asteroid the size of a football stadium will zoom past Earth on Halloween, in a close encounter that astronomers view as far more...
. . MANILA – Philippine Immigration has ordered the deportation a U.S. Marine once his trial and possible sentence for the murder of a transgender Filipino...
SWEDEN – A teacher and a student have died and three other people are seriously wounded in southern Sweden, where a young man in a...
. . NEW SOUTH WALES – Australian police have identify the body of a two year old girl found discarded in 2010, near a suitcase on...
. . CEBU – Two Chinese diplomats were killed in the Philippines on Wednesday, and a third was wounded, when a woman opened fire at a...
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