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MACAU, China -- The laid-off worker from Hunan province hung back from the baccarat table as his wife placed bets. He sipped water and explained how he justified traveling to this former Portuguese...

NEW DELHI, Dec. 15 -- During the three-day siege of Mumbai, an Indian television news anchor took a call from one of the suspected attackers, a young man who identified himself as Imran Babar.

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 14 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised Sunday to provide Pakistan with more information about Pakistani links to the Mumbai attacks late last month, saying that Britain ...

MOS COW, Dec. 13 -- The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo -- that of...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 14 -- Pakistan said Indian fighter jets crossed into its airspace Saturday, prompting Pakistan to place its air force on high alert two weeks after India vowed to take str...

LITTLE RANN OF KUTCH, India -- In the soft light of dawn, the cracked, dry seabed stretched endlessly in every direction. Jyotsna Patadia was alone -- she is often alone -- in her family's grass hu...

North Korea's orchestras are eager to travel to the United States and replicate the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's bravura performance in February in the North Korean capital. The negotiations f...

POZNAN, Poland -- Several major developing countries that had long resisted making specific commitments to combat global warming are laying out concrete plans to curb their greenhouse gas emissions...

FARIDKOT, Pakistan -- The road to the home town of the only gunman captured during the Mumbai attacks is about 20 feet wide and rutted, cutting through vast expanses of sugar cane and potato fields.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 11--India's chief law enforcement official announced a massive revamp of the country's security infrastructure in the wake of last month's Mumbai attacks, boosting coastal security,...