Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- The United States needs evidence of a serious commitment from North Korea before resuming six-party talks aimed at resolving the North's nuclear arms standoff, the U.S. special e
(FT) -- Tokyo intervened in the currency markets for the first time in more than six years to weaken the yen, after the currency broke through Y83 against the U.S. dollar and threatened exporter profi
Hong Kong, China (CNN) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, once one of the United States' strongest allies in the fight against terrorism, is ramping up for what looks like another run at
United Nations (CNN) -- Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, will head a new U.N. agency created to promote gender equality around the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.Bache
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike killed 12 alleged militants in Pakistan's tribal region on Wednesday morning, intelligence officials told CNN.It was the latest in a series o
(CNN) -- France's deportation of more than 8,000 ethnic Roma, commonly referred to as gypsies, "is a disgrace" that could trigger legal action, a senior European Commission official said Tuesday."I pe
(CNN) -- Eleven children from the same extended family died over the weekend in a lake in Brazil after the boat they were in overturned, police said.The accident Sunday took the lives of one 16-year-o
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A jubilant American Sarah Shourd reunited with her mother in Muscat, Oman, on Tuesday after Iranian authorities released her from a Tehran prison where she had been held for 14 m
(CNN) -- Philippine authorities acknowledged for the first time Thursday that some of the tourists taken hostage in a bus standoff last month may have been shot by police in the bungled rescue operati
Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded in the Russian republic of North Ossetia on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 85 more, government officials said, according to the Interfax
(CNN) -- A major Islamic group will announce an initiative Thursday to distribute 200,000 Qurans to replace what it says are 200 copies that a Florida church plans to burn in a gesture that has sparke
(CNN) -- A British journalist held captive in Pakistan since March has been released, the U.K. Foreign Office told CNN Thursday.Asad Qureshi was in Pakistan working on a documentary on militants in th
(FT) -- Goldman Sachs has been fined £17.5m ($30m) for regulatory control failings that led the giant investment bank to neglect to tell the UK financial regulator that it was under investigatio
Beijing, China (CNN) -- Nearly 200 commercial pilots in China falsified their flying experience, Chinese aviation officials have discovered.The announcement follows one of China's worst plane crashes
(CNN) -- "Love 99, Happiness forever" was the theme as 163 couples married in Taiwan's capital on Thursday.Thursday was the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year since the founding of Taiwan.
(CNN) -- Mark David Chapman, convicted killer of music icon John Lennon, is up for parole for the sixth time and may be questioned this week.A parole hearing for Chapman that had been scheduled for Au
Barclays on Tuesday confirmed Bob Diamond, head of its fast growing investment bank, as its next chief executive.Mr Diamond, who is based in New York but will move back to London to take up his new po
Paris, France (CNN) -- Thousands of workers across France staged a one-day strike Tuesday to protest government plans to raise the retirement age.More than 200 demonstrations were planned throughout t
Nahuala, Guatemala (CNN) -- Officials say about 40 people were buried in two landslides here. Four of them were Carlos Coti's family members."They left behind 20 orphans, because each one had four, fi
(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Hermine pummeled southern Texas Tuesday morning, packing torrential rains and damaging winds, along with the possibility of tornadoes.As of 8 a.m. ET, the center of Hermit was
(CNN) -- Two independent lawmakers from rural Australia broke a parliamentary deadlock on Tuesday, giving the country its first elected female prime minister.Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who replaced
London, England (CNN) -- London's Metropolitan Police said it might reopen an investigation into the alleged hacking of phones of top British politicians and celebrities by a tabloid newspaper, even a
(CNN) -- A string of bombings and shootings across Baghdad Monday left at least one Iraqi military officer dead and wounded more than a dozen civilians and soldiers, an Interior Ministry official said
Washington (CNN) -- As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN
Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- A Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped for five months in Afghanistan and released Saturday says his kidnappers weren't members of the Taliban, but corrupt Afghan sold
