North Korea’s military said it would crush the South’s planned naval drills this week near the disputed sea border with a powerful physical blow, and warned all civilian ships to stay away from area.
Video surveillance is growing explosively in northwestern China, where ethnic Han and Uighur groups took part in the ethnic rioting last year.
Communications companies and governments are struggling to balance privacy with national security.
Hungary’s new prime minister, who is bucking the trend of austerity in Europe, is laying blame for economic contraction on the head of its central bank.
With rescue operations still under way, the damage from Pakistan’s worst floods in generations mounted as public anger rose.
President Obama marked the end of the combat mission, “as promised and on schedule,” in a country still finding its way.
In the worst times of Africa’s “meningitis belt,” the disease has killed more than 25,000 people and left thousands more deaf or retarded.
The toll of a deadly summer of angry protest in the Kashmir region rose to at least 33 people after a bloody weekend in which security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters, officials said.
Two sailboats carrying a total of 323 Haitians were intercepted over the weekend in Bahamian waters, the largest sea interception of would-be migrants since the devastating earthquake in January.
