Chinese were seeing in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, but with fortune-tellers predicting accidents and an unstable economy and some parents-to-be fretting over the year’s reputation for docile
China summoned India’s ambassador over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to a disputed border region in the Himalayas, a long-festering irritant in relations between the Asian giants. Modi on Friday visited
A nursing home worker in central China accused of killing three elderly residents with a brick and injuring 15 other people had argued with his boss over unpaid wages, according
In the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, just across the street from a popular department store, Ming Hing Arts has a newly opened shop selling chopsticks, bracelets, Buddha statues,
A river ferry carrying about 140 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 48 people, officials said. A rescue operation was underway, but it was not clear exactly how many
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has been hospitalized for severe pneumonia, the Prime Minister’s Office said. Lee, 91, was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5, the office said in a statement Saturday.
The Indian leader of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations
Maldives authorities arrested former President and current opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed yesterday, ordering him to stand trial for his 2012 decision to arrest a senior judge. Nasheed’s supporters protested in the
After more than a decade of warfare, negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are set to begin, officials, diplomats and experts said as President Ashraf Ghani declared that
Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt yesterday back to Turkey after ceremonially planting the country’s crescent-and-star
Two people were killed and about eight others injured in a bomb explosion at a march yesterday in Ukraine’s second-largest city that was commemorating the first anniversary of the ouster of president
A group of Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet in the skies over India two days ago has released the crew and surrendered at an airstrip in the
It may be as close as Rudy Giuliani will come to a retraction. The former New York City Mayor called into Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due Respect on Thursday to
Nascar suspended Kurt Busch indefinitely following a Delaware judge’s finding that he had “committed an act of domestic violence,” and Chevrolet responded by suspending its relationship with the driver. The suspension
Endeshaw Negesse and Birhane Dibaba claimed a double win for Ethiopia at the Tokyo Marathon yesterday amid tight security in Japan’s capital. Negesse won the men’s race in 2 hours
The Fight is finally on. Floyd Mayweather Jr. will meet Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a welterweight showdown that will be boxing’s richest fight ever. Mayweather himself announced the
All sentiment aside, Afghanistan’s cricketers showed Sunday why they belong at the World Cup. The Afghanis, making their first appearance at the tournament, came into the event with plenty of
The theory in use must be the one about the hypothetical ever-accommodating can of sardines: you squeeze a little and there you go… one more added to the dead school.
With their tentative agreement on financial aid for Greece, the euro zone’s finance ministers have paused a drama that could still end in disaster and that should never have happened
India’s filthy air is cutting 660 million lives short by about three years, according to research published Saturday that underlines the hidden costs of the country’s heavy reliance on fossil
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