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SKorea's president-elect faces NKorea uncertainty
Park Geun-hye promises to reach out to North Korea with more humanitarian aid and deeper engagement after she moves into South Korea's presidential ...
Hopes for new leader to pressure Bank of Japan
Hopes are high in Japan Inc. for the new prime minister. Stocks are recovering. The central bank is set to supercharge an already loose monetary ...
US Army seeks death sentence in Afghan rampage
The U.S. Army is seeking the death penalty against a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage in March, a punishment some ...
Thailand to extradite Italian accused of mob ties
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of a fugitive Italian banker found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy's top mobsters ...
China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers
Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves.
China to overhaul struggling solar panel industry
China's government says it will encourage mergers among producers of solar panels to strengthen an industry that has suffered huge losses due to ...
US, China economies 'inseparable': China official
The economies of China and the U.S. have become "interdependent and inseparable," a top Chinese official said Wednesday after high-level trade talks ...
US Army seeks death penalty in 16 Afghan killings
The U.S. Army said Wednesday it will seek the death penalty against the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage in March, ...
Quotes from the most, least positive countries
Comments by people in some of the countries that a Gallup poll ranks as the world's most and least positive: ___ MOST POSITIVE 1. PANAMA "We're ...
Latin Americans rank as happiest people on planet
The world's happiest people aren't in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren't in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy.
The happiest and saddest countries in the world
Gallup Inc. asked roughly 1,000 people in each of 148 countries the following questions: Did you feel well-respected yesterday? Were you treated with ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...
UN suspends polio drive in Pakistan after killings
The United Nations suspended its polio vaccination drive in Pakistan on Wednesday after eight people involved in the effort were shot dead in the past ...
Rocket with 3 onboard heads for space station
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American, a Russian and a Canadian headed Wednesday for the International Space Station, where they will spend four ...
UBS to pay $1.5 billion over interest rate rigging
The Justice Department says an international investment bank will pay more than $1.5 billion in penalties in three nations to resolve charges of ...
Dictator father looms over SKorea's new president
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the ...
Outrage grows in India over gang-rape on bus
The hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country ...
Serena has surgery on her big toes
Serena Williams has had surgery on her big toes and withdrew from an exhibition match against top-ranked Victoria Azarenka in Thailand this month.
BP selling stake in big Chinese gas field
British oil company BP says it is selling its stake in a South China Sea gas field to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company for $308 million ...
China is top dam builder, going where others won't
Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the ...
Asia stocks rise over US budget deal optimism
Asian stock markets rose Wednesday after U.S. political leaders appeared to be closing in on a budget deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" by the year-end ...
LA jury awards $4.5 million to Filipino teachers
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to Filipino teachers who paid large fees to obtain U.S. jobs through a placement agency. Jurors on Monday found ...
Army general to face court-martial in sex charges
An Army general will face court-martial on a series of sexual misconduct charges, including forcible sodomy, in connection with several illicit ...
APNewsBreak: $1 coin backers give to Harkin center
A South Korean businessman and his Iowa metals company gave $500,000 to a university institute honoring U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, who is pushing for a ...
Panetta cites budget woes, Afghan war progress
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress Tuesday that the budget stalemate and lawmakers' spending choices are among the greatest threats to the ...