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Women's World Cup was more than a game for Japan
As Japan's Saki Kumagai prepared for her decisive penalty kick in the shootout that ended Sunday's Women's World Cup final, a wounded nation...
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Korean DJ is Seoul's master of Western rock
Kang Hyun-min remembers the first time he slid an album from its cardboard jacket and delicately, almost reverently, placed it on the...
Barracks shooting prompts South Koreans to call for military reform
His emotional pressure valve apparently blew: The distraught South Korean Marine Corps corporal decided he'd endured enough abuse from his...
In Beijing, redevelopment threatens last bathhouse
In his twilight years, Zhang Shan has simplified his daily schedule to the bare essentials: Wake up, eat breakfast, walk to Shuangxing...
Finding his lost family is Japanese man's mission
For months now, the drill has been the same: Maromu Oikawa grabs a shovel and chainsaw and gathers up the three precious photographs.
China's high-speed rail glitches: Racing to make errors?
China's high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai has been beset by glitches in the two weeks since it opened to great fanfare on...
Canada's exit highlights Afghanistan challenges
The air conditioning in the cavernous military assembly hall didn't generate enough of a breeze to flutter the long strings of plastic...
China seeks to stem Bohai Sea oil spills
China is moving to contain two oil spills in the Bohai Sea off the nation's northeast coast amid complaints from environmental groups and...
Australia's carbon tax plan 'a big turning point'
After 10 months of negotiations and sometimes nasty public debate, Australia's government has finally announced the details of a carbon...
Indian attacks were 'not a failure of intelligence,' official says
Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters Thursday it is too early to blame any particular militant group or individual...
China tries to put brakes on overheated economy
While the Obama administration struggles to jump-start the stalled U.S. recovery, policymakers in Beijing have an opposite but equally...
Three explosions in Mumbai kill at least 21
For the second time in three years, Mumbai suffered a major terrorist attack Wednesday as three explosions rocked India's financial capital,...
Indian prime minister reshuffles Cabinet
In a bid to jump-start a flagging government and move beyond persistent corruption scandals, India's ruling coalition Tuesday announced a...
Relief and worry after slaying of Hamid Karzai's half brother
For the Americans trying to pacify the south of Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai might prove even more troublesome in death than he was in...
U.S. decision to withhold military aid to Pakistan could backfire
Washington's decision to hold back $800 million in military aid to Pakistan probably won't prod Islamabad into clamping down on militancy,...
Copper mining will crush ancient Afghan site
The ruins poke out of a monotonous stretch of scrub and beckon the world to visit Afghanistan as it was more than 1,400 years ago, when...
Malaysia fires tear gas at protest, arrests 1,667
At least 20,000 Malaysians defied government warnings by marching for electoral reforms Saturday, as police fired tear gas and detained more...
U.S. suspends some aid to Pakistani military
With ties between the two nations strained after American commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison city, the Obama...
China says rumors of former President Jiang Zemin's death are false
After a week filled with rumor and intrigue, the official New China News Agency had the following message Thursday to relay to the world:...
U.S. has verified Al Qaeda operative's death, official says
The U.S. has confirmed that a key Al Qaeda planner and trainer was killed in a drone strike in the tribal areas of Pakistan in June, a U.S....
Starving North Korea faces suspicious donors
As humanitarian groups warn of increasing food shortages in North Korea, the authoritarian government faces diminishing prospects for...
WTO rules against China on limiting export of raw materials
The World Trade Organization ruled that China was unfairly protecting its domestic manufacturers by limiting the export of nine raw...
U.S. troop pullout points up Karzai's woes
As U.S. commanders prepare to bring home 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year's end, the drawdown is calling fresh attention to the tangle...
Japanese retirees volunteer to work in stricken nuclear plant
They were two old friends catching up over coffee, retirees swapping stories and gasping at the unfolding nuclear nightmare at the Fukushima...
