| Tokyo dispatches team to islands Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:23 AM PDT Tokyo's governor dispatched a team Sunday to survey a set of islands in the East China Sea to which both Japan and China lay claim.  |
| Elite Western schools head east Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:41 AM PDT Asia's affluent middle classes have long been eager to enroll their kids in the West's elite schools but now they no longer need to travel as far to do so.  |
| Syrian's duty: Record the dying Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT For the past 18 months, a Syrian activist has documented nearly every death in his hometown: more than 400 victims, including his older brother.  |
| Why Egypt's Morsy went to China Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:21 AM PDT President Mohammed Morsy, by virtue of being in the post so briefly, is to a degree making his foreign policy as he goes. Beijing and Tehran have been his first big forays and he is already making waves.  |
| Opinion: A global crisis in 2013 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:40 AM PDT David Frum says the drought is driving up world food prices and history suggests that is likely to produce unrest within poor nations  |
| Giant earthworm found Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT A 20-inch long earthworm was found in the gutter of a residential house in southwest China.  |
| Why Egypt's Morsy went to China Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:21 AM PDT President Mohammed Morsy, by virtue of being in the post so briefly, is to a degree making his foreign policy as he goes. Beijing and Tehran have been his first big forays and he is already making waves.  |
| Documenting Syria's horrors Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:51 AM PDT For the past 18 months, a Syrian activist has documented nearly every death in his hometown: more than 400 victims, including his older brother.  |
| U.S. halts training of Afghan police Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:50 AM PDT U.S. Special Operations forces have suspended the training of some Afghan Local Police recruits while it double-checks the background of the current police force, following a rise in attacks against NATO troops by their Afghan counterparts, an official said Sunday.  |
| Egypt lifts ban on veiled TV anchors Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:06 AM PDT Fatma Nabil made history Sunday as she became the first veiled woman to read the news on Egyptian state television.  |
| Suicide attack targets U.S. Consulate car in Pakistan Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:47 AM PDT An explosives-filled car slammed into a U.S. Consulate vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing two Pakistanis and wounding two U.S. consular staff, authorities said.  |
| Church founder Moon dies in South Korea Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:51 AM PDT The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass weddings -- died early Monday in South Korea, the church said.  |
| Yemen official: U.S. drone 'mistake' kills 13 civilians Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:09 AM PDT A U.S. drone strike targeting al Qaeda suspects in Yemen killed 13 civilians, including three women, three security officials in the restive Middle Eastern country said.  |
| Egypt lifts ban on veiled TV anchors Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:18 AM PDT Fatma Nabil made history Sunday as she became the first veiled woman to read the news on Egyptian state television.  |
| Red Bull heir charged in Thai police officer's death Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:34 PM PDT The grandson of the creator of Red Bull energy drink allegedly crashed his Ferrari into a Thai police officer, killing him, and then fled the scene, Bangkok police said Monday.  |
| U.S. temporarily halts training of Afghan police Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:49 AM PDT U.S. Special Operations forces have suspended the training of some Afghan Local Police recruits while it double-checks the background of the current police force, following a rise in attacks against NATO troops by their Afghan counterparts, an official said Sunday.  |
| Pistorius sorry for outburst Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:19 AM PDT South African "Blade runner" Oscar Pistorius has apologized for the timing of his complaints about the length of his rivals' prosthetic limbs after his shock loss in the 200-meter sprint at the Paralympic Games in London.  |
| Police injured in N. Ireland clashes Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:33 AM PDT Dozens of police officers were injured overnight trying to keep Catholics and Protestants apart in troubled Belfast, Northern Ireland, police said Monday.  |
| Ex-Murdoch executive in court Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT Rebekah Brooks, a former top executive at media baron Rupert Murdoch's News International publishing company, is due in court Monday, accused of phone hacking and corruption.  |
| Assange predicts end of standoff Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:53 AM PDT WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London -- predicts that his situation will be resolved within a year.  |
| Ethiopia bids farewell to Zenawi Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:36 AM PDT Ethiopia bid farewell to its prime minister Meles Zenawi on Sunday in the nation's first state funeral in more than 80 years.  |
| Tutu criticizes Blair, Bush for Iraq Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:37 AM PDT South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Sunday that Tony Blair and George W. Bush should be "made to answer" at the International Criminal Court for their actions around the Iraq war.  |
| Mali Islamists take over town Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:23 AM PDT Islamist rebels in Mali have taken over a town in the middle of the country, a rebel leader and a resident said Saturday.  |
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