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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.

China attracted the most foreign direct investment among 150 developing countries in 1999, a newly released World Bank report shows.

The ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Napster knew its users were violating copyright laws and therefore it should stop facilitating them will have little long term effect on sharing of music on the internet.

Taipei's mayor has arrived in Hong Kong saying more time is needed to assess the success of Chinese sovereignty under the 'one country two systems' policy.

A man who claimed that his life was ruined after a teacher beat him with a belt 17 years ago has been awarded more than $1.3 million.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has raised human rights concerns with Chinese leaders at the start of visit focusing on business ties.

Ninety four people have been killed in Indonesia's west Java after fresh landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into villages over the weekend.

Allies of ousted Philippine leader Joseph Estrada, including his dismissed police chief, have filed to contest 13 Senate seats in the May 2001 congressional elections.

A member of China's banned Falun Gong spiritual movement died on Friday after setting himself ablaze in a Beijing neighborhood that is home to several Communist Party leaders, state media reported.

President Abdurrahman Wahid, who became Indonesia's only democratically-elected president just 15 months ago, now finds his popularity in shreds and his grip on power slipping.

Japan's prime minister came under fire Sunday for continuing with a game of golf after hearing a U.S. nuclear submarine had struck a Japanese trawler.

Russia has opened up four polar air routes for the first time since the Cold War, a move that could trim two hours off flights from North America to Asia.

The South Korean city of Inchon has announced that it is adding an 'e' to its name, changing the English spelling of the city to Incheon.

Premier Chang Chun-hsiung on Friday suggested a referendum over the future of a controversial nuclear power station, moving to resolve a political deadlock that has battered Taiwan's economy.

The United States is to begin airlifting tents and blankets to thousands of Afghan refugees who have fled to Pakistan to escape the worst drought in 30 years and decades of civil war.