Is China upping the stakes in its territorial dispute with Japan? An editorial in the state-run People's Daily has infuriated Japan by questioning the country's claim to the Ryukyu Islands, the largest of which is Okinawa -- home to 1.2 million Ja...

Striking dockworkers from a port owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, were joined by thousands of other protesters in a May Day march through Hong Kong. The workers, now in the second month of their strike, say they haven't had a pay r...

At least 21 people were killed yesterday in the worst violence to hit China's Xinjiang province since ethnic riots killed around 200 people in 2009. Chinese state media says a clash erupted when officials inspecting homes discovered a group of Isl...

As if the emergence of a mutated strain of bird flu wasn't bad enough, now a new mystery is making things even worse. According to a report by the World Health Organization today 40 percent of those infected have had no contact with poultry. This ...

 Amid all the pomp, ceremony and security of Baroness Margaret Thatcher's funeral, there were those who were there to protest against the divisive former Prime Minister. The high police presence at this $15 million ceremony deterred many dem...

In the latest danger sign before next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, two young Brazilian soccer fans were shot to death apparently by supporters of a rival team before a test match in a the new Arena Castelao World Cup stadium in the nort...

As India struggles to combat crimes against women, three engineering students have come up with a shocking "solution": GPS-equipped anti-rape underwear that delivers a debilitating electric shock to attackers and alerts police. The inventors say a...

The streets of Chile's capital, Santiago, resembled a war zone in the early hours of Saturday as demonstrators clashed with police through the night after marking the "Day of the Young Combatant." Protesters launched missiles at police and set fir...

A top official in Beijing has crushed Hong Kong's hopes for a genuinely democratic election in 2017 by informing the largely self-governing territory's people that although they can vote for a chief executive, the central goverment may veto their ...

Lawyer and anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky died after alleged mistreatment in jail in 2009, but that hasn't stopped Russia putting him on trial for tax evasion. His family says the charges are fabricated and the bizarre trial is...