Indian entrepreneur turns pachyderm poop into paper

Indian entrepreneur turns pachyderm poop into paper

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Pakistan's only Christian Cabinet member assassinated

Pakistan's only Christian Cabinet member assassinated

Gunmen killed the only Christian member of Pakistan's Cabinet on Wednesday in Islamabad, the second assassination this year of a top...

Gen. David Petraeus apologizes for deaths of 9 Afghan children

Gen. David Petraeus apologizes for deaths of 9 Afghan children

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander of Western forces in Afghanistan, apologized Wednesday for the accidental deaths of nine...

China's disabled exploited as slaves

China's disabled exploited as slaves

At 30, Liu Xiaoping is more boy than man, with soft doe eyes that affix visitors with the unabashed stare of the very young and glisten with...

In New Zealand, a centerpiece becomes a tomb

Veteran television producer Rob Cope-Williams was out in the field Tuesday, working on his weekly farm report, downing a lunch of French...

Tensions rise between U.S., Pakistan spy agencies

Tensions rise between U.S., Pakistan spy agencies

American and Pakistani intelligence services have become deeply estranged in recent weeks after several high-profile disputes, though senior...

Emaciated director's death prompts dialogue in South Korea

The recent starvation death of an aspiring South Korean filmmaker is prompting a vigorous public dialogue here over compensation for artists...

New Zealand's 'Earthquake Mayor' rallies a shaken city

New Zealand's 'Earthquake Mayor' rallies a shaken city

He has been there in front of the news cameras almost from the moment the deadly earthquake struck this tourist city.

New Zealand rescue teams scramble to find quake survivors

New Zealand rescue teams scramble to find quake survivors

The death toll from New Zealand's massive earthquake was expected to climb past 75 as 300 people remained missing and rescuers scoured...

Indian court convicts 31 of murder, conspiracy in train fire

Indian court convicts 31 of murder, conspiracy in train fire

A court in India on Tuesday convicted 31 defendants of killing dozens of people by burning a train near the town of Godhra in 2002, an act...

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A story only Henry Miller could love

For Hoki Tokuda, the whole crazy affair was like an inside joke her ex-husband, the late author Henry Miller, would have found...

CIA drones may be avoiding Pakistani civilians

The CIA passed up a chance last year to kill Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of an anti-American insurgent network in Pakistan that is...

Mumbai's high court upholds death penalty against gunman

Mumbai's high court upholds death penalty against gunman

Mumbai's high court on Monday reaffirmed the death penalty against the lone surviving gunman in the 2008 terrorist attack in which 166...

Suicide bomber kills 30 in Afghanistan's north

Suicide bomber kills 30 in Afghanistan's north

A suicide bomber struck a government administrative center in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing about 30 people, many of them...

China hints at possible Web clampdown

China hints at possible Web clampdown

With a wary eye on popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Chinese leaders are calling for new ways to defuse social unrest...

China tries to stamp out 'Jasmine Revolution'

China tries to stamp out 'Jasmine Revolution'

Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine...

Afghanistan says 50 civilians killed in Western battle with insurgents

Afghanistan says 50 civilians killed in Western battle with insurgents

Afghan officials and the NATO force on Sunday offered starkly differing accounts of a confrontation between foreign troops and insurgents...

China police show up en masse at hint of protest

China police show up en masse at hint of protest

In military terms, it might be called a disproportionate preemptive strike, one that underscored how nervous the Chinese government is about...

Kim Jong Il's guard set himself free

Kim Jong Il's guard set himself free

Lee Young-guk is a struggling duck breeder in muddy work clothes, shepherding 10,000 feathered wards at his rural family-owned spread near...

China's annual long march

China's annual long march

Li Guangqiang rises early and pulls on his sharpest city clothes: dark jeans fashionably distressed, puffy down coat, black pouch slung over...

Nepal caught between China and India

A recent recording making the rounds in Nepal featured a Maoist party leader speaking to a man with a Chinese accent. During the 12-minute...

Taliban gunmen and bombers storm bank in Afghanistan, kill 18

Taliban gunmen and bombers storm bank in Afghanistan, kill 18

It was lunchtime, and it was a Saturday, the first day of the Afghan workweek. In the city of Jalalabad, as elsewhere, plenty of people...

Suicide bomber kills 11 in eastern Afghanistan

Suicide bomber kills 11 in eastern Afghanistan

A massive car bomb blew up Friday on the outskirts of a city in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, an attack that...

India attempts damage control in wake of corruption scandals

India attempts damage control in wake of corruption scandals

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought with a rare news conference Wednesday to regain momentum after a string of corruption scandals...

In Pakistan, rumbles of a revolution over Raymond Davis

In Pakistan, rumbles of a revolution over Raymond Davis

Inspired by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, Pakistani college student Gulraiz Iqbal is itching for a reason to take his...

Afghan plan poses threat to women's shelters

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