Batman star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was physically stopped by government-backed guards from visiting a blind activis

Homeless people wrap themselves in rented quilts on rented cots near Jama Masjid in Delhi on Wednesday.

A commercial U.S. satellite company said it has captured a photo of China's first aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast.

DigitalGlobe Inc. said on Wednesday one of its satellites p

A French court found former President Jacques Chirac guilty in a historic verdict on Thursday of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the conservative party he long led, and handed him a sus

At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces - less than a can of soda - she is among the smallest babies ever born in the worl

Ambulances are parked in front of the court of justice following a grenade attack by several armed men in the city centre of Liege, Belgium, on Tuesday.

Several al-Qaeda militants escaped early on Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such spectacular jailbreak this year.

South Korea will allow Christians to light two more Christmas tree-shaped towers near the tense border with North Korea despite strong opposition from Pyongyang, an official said on Sunday.

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Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely alliance of the United States, China and India.

Policemen detain a Tibetan during a protest against the visit of China’s deputy chief of general staff, Gen. Ma Xiaotian Xiatian, in New Delhi on Friday. — AP