Tourists snap pictures Wednesday of this ice palace at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China. The festival started Sunday and runs fo...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman apologized today for comments he made in North Korea about a detained American missionary, saying he had been drinking and was und...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman sang “Happy Birthday” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before leading a squad of former NBA stars in a game at a Pyongyang stadi...
BEIJING — China will allow the creation of up to five privately financed banks this year to support economic growth by gradually opening the state-run industry, the coun...
LONDON — Honor, She Got.
Hollywood star Angela Lansbury, best known as the clue-collecting supersleuth in the television series “Murder, She Wrote,” has been made a Dame...
They had been on loan in U.S. for 2 decades
WARSAW, Poland — Half of a historic Auschwitz-Birkenau barracks that was on loan to the U.S. has been returned to Poland after...
Blasts kill more than 30
MOSCOW — A suicide bomber killed 14 people aboard an electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd during the morning rush hour today, a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Sunday for a Canadian passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship as it motored off a remote Puert...
BEIJING — More than 8 million acres of China’s farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said today, hig...
China, S. Korea take offense
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects at a shrine honoring Japan’s war dead in an unexpected visit today that drew sharp rebuke...
