Government troops have won a string of victories against the Tamil Tiger rebels, who are now confined to one area.

Azerbaijan has begun to enforce a law that bans foreign companies from broadcasting on national frequencies, effectively closing its airwaves to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The document compiled by Indian authorities and seen by The New York Times seems designed to demonstrate that the attackers were sent from Pakistan.

Opposition lawmakers ended their violent, 12-day siege of South Korea's Parliament Tuesday after successfully delaying a key vote on a U.S. free trade deal and other legislation.

A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.

Sri Lankan troops broke through the Tamil Tigers' northern defense lines Tuesday, the military said, opening another active front in their war against the beleaguered guerrillas.

After his release from Guantánamo Bay without charge, Muhammad Saad Iqbal, a Pakistani, plans to sue the U.S. government, charging he was subjected to torture, imprisonment and interrogation.

Japan said it would formally ask Australia to keep anti-whaling activists and their ship, the Steve Irwin, from refueling at Australian ports.

The vice president-elect embarks on what amounts to the new administration's first overseas fact-finding trip

Kyoto is celebrating the millennial anniversary of Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji," an episodic story of love and loss among the imperial set.

The Chinese government broadened its recent effort to limit pornography on the Internet by criticizing 19 Internet companies by name on Monday, including the two market leaders in the country, Google and Baidu.

Authorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang approved the arrests of nearly 1,300 people in the first 11 months of last year, a report said on Sunday.

The buildup plan at Andersen Air Force Base, to be carried out by 2014, represents a major realignment of U.S. forces in the Pacific.

Since the 12th century, Japan has held a shooting match between archers wielding long bows while on horseback

Material came from the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, alleged details of conversations between the gunmen and handlers in Pakistan, recovered weapons and data from satellite phones, according to a statement from the Indian Foreign Ministry.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians lived in the Kilinochchi district and other regions controlled by the rebels before new fighting in the Sri Lankan civil war erupted again three years ago.

A suicide bomber attacked police officers in northwest Pakistan on Sunday as they treated civilians wounded by an earlier explosion, a police official said.

A series of powerful earthquakes shook remote eastern Indonesia on Sunday, toppling or badly damaging more than 100 buildings and leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured.

Kampong Buangkok, slated by the government for demolition and redevelopment, defines a traditional rural way of life that Singapore has left behind.

Three weeks after the terrorist attacks, life in this sprawling Indian city is getting back to normal, or close to it.