The Silvio Berlusconi circus will not be returning to the top of Italian politics. The 76-year-old media mogul, Italy's longest-serving and most controversial prime minister, has ruled out running for a fourth term in next year's election. He says...

Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, has been charged with leveraging his family's connections to benefit his real estate holdings. Contributor Ajoy Bose reports from New Delhi on these accusations.

Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has received a suspended death sentence for the murder of a British businessman. The sentencing closes one chapter in China's biggest political scandal in decades.

After a leaked video showed several monks from the Jogye Order gambling, drinking, and smoking, South Koreans took to social media to express their shock and outrage. Contributor Yoo Eun Lee reports on citizen reaction to the revelations.

Bo Xilai, a key powerbroker in China's Communist Party, has been sacked after his factional enemies seized on a local corruption scandal to remove him. His dismissal could be an important sign of the future trajectory of Chinese politics. He was t...

An investigation has uncovered an underground ring of forged academic degrees from seminaries and fake qualifications, sold to aspiring pastors for around USD$40,000.

A political scandal is brewing in Germany over revelations that a state security agency has been spying on members of the Die Linke leftist party, which has roots in East German communism. It has emerged that almost a third of its 76 MPs are...

President Asif Ali Zadari and former ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani are facing what many are calling the biggest political scandal in Pakistani history. "Memogate" erupted when a secret message to the US government asking for help to suppres...