Trading starts Monday on a Chinese stock market for high-tech companies that play a key role in official development plans that are straining relations with Washington.
Jurors began deliberating but didn’t reach a decision yesterday on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should be put to death for the brutal
A Chinese Australian writer detained in Beijing since January was charged yesterday and moved to a different detention center in the Chinese capital, his lawyer said. Australian
Thousands of Philippine police officers have received administrative punishments with more than 2,000 dismissed for wrongdoings during raids where drug suspects were killed under the president’s crackdown,
The U.N. special rapporteur for Myanmar said yesterday the U.S. didn’t “go far enough” in sanctions against four top Myanmar generals over the mass killings of minority
A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto, Japan, and set it on fire early yesterday, authorities said, killing nearly 30
The U.S. is tightly limiting travel by Iranian officials visiting or assigned to the United Nations, sparking concern from the world body. Representatives to the U.N.
The Taliban said they would hold talks today with representatives of a Swedish non-profit group after threats by the insurgents forced the organization to close 42
The U.S. Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people “storm Area 51,” the top-secret Cold War test site in
The IRA has announced its second ceasefire in three years starting at noon tomorrow. It follows a statement by republican political party Sinn Fein last night urging
* Movies: Lion King * Books: Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman * Music: King’s Mouth: Music and Songs by The
Life moves in a circle, “The Lion King” tells us, and, increasingly, so does studio moviemaking. Close on the heels of “live-action” remakes of “Aladdin” and
Chuck Klosterman seems like a great hang. He’s the guy at the party who has everyone spitting out their drinks as they laugh while trying to swallow
The new album by The Flaming Lips is a head trip — literally. The ever-evolving, mind-blowing alt-rockers have somehow upped their game with a concept album
No one expected their culture would ever become mainstream when a few hundred comic book and science fiction enthusiasts and creators gathered in the basement of a
Venezuelans like to jest that their beloved arepas are so widely consumed that babies come out of the womb with the corn flatbreads already in hand.
Apple and Google are rolling out dozens of new emoji that include cute critters, of course, but also expand the number of images of human diversity.
Germany won the mixed 5-kilometer open water team relay at the world swimming championships in a close finish over Italy and the United States yesterday. The
Thirteen-year-old Chinese diver Chen Yuxi won the women’s 10-meter platform final at the world swimming championships, and received two perfect marks for her third drive. Chen
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