Switch comes while public demands reform
BEIJING — Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as China’s leader today, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful ...
LONDON — Britain’s media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: “omnishambles.”
Oxford Universit...
HONG KONG — A luxury Hong Kong apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed building has sold for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million, the property developer said today, t...
LONDON — A gripping account of a doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize.
“Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the...
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks after his re-election, President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the once pariah nation of Myanmar, drawing a...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are working on a set of new and unprecedented Iran sanctions that could prevent the Islamic republic from doing business with most of the world un...
Uprising now in 19th month
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed to “live and die” in Syria, saying in an interview broadcast today that he will never flee his cou...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs and a suicide bomber killed 20 people in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan today, officials said.
The deaths came even as armed c...
Japan used some for contact lens factory, whaling
SENDAI, Japan — About a quarter of the $148 billion budget for reconstruction after Japan’s March 2011 tsunami and nucle...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Investigators from France will exhume Yasser Arafat’s remains next month to try to find out how the Palestinian leader died, a French official said...
