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While Chinese diplomats have given upbeat assessments of relations with the United States, army hardliners have stepped up attacks against American unilateralism.

A new review of climate changes warns that up to half of Australia's tropical rainforests could be threatened if global temperatures lift by an average of 1 degree Celsius.

the photograph of a reporter with a gun to his head -- was born 38 years ago in Princeton, New Jersey.

On October 19 last year, 43-year-old Iraqi Amal Hussan clung to a plank of wood watching as hundreds of women and children died around her in the waters off the Indonesian coast of Java.

Curbing Afghanistan's illicit trade in opium poppy is inextricably linked to the country's attempt to find peace and stability, a United Nations report has concluded.

The fledgling territory of East Timor has made a plea for help from its two closest neighbors, just three months before it officially becomes an independent state.

As the former Indonesian territory of East Timor gears up for independence on 20 May 2002, some are asking just how this fledgling nation will survive.

The leaders of Indonesia and Australia will make a fresh attempt to improve their sometimes tempestuous relationship Wednesday, but political observers expect there will be little immediate progress to report.

The Governor-General of Australia, Peter Hollingworth, has defended allegations he covered up and condoned incidences of child sex abuse when he was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.

Prime Minister John Howard says there are no grounds to take the unprecedented step of sacking the Governor-General of Australia, Peter Hollingworth, over his mishandling of sex abuse cases while he was Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao's status as the country's next supreme leader has been confirmed at a seminar in which he won lavish praise from a powerful rival.

On November 4 last year, Egyptian-born Abu Quassey was arrested by Indonesian police following one of Indonesia's worst maritime disasters in which 354 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers died.

When Iraqi children asked 43-year-old Amal Hussan what she knew about Australia, she told them it was beautiful and it was a place they could go to school every day.

Vote Bangle is not your usual election cry, but then again a six-foot-tall motorbike-riding sari-clad eunuch is not your usual political candidate.

Philippine prosecutors plan to file two new charges against a man suspected of links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Intelligence officials in Southeast Asia say the suspected hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks may have reviewed plans from a foiled 1995 terrorist plot -- discovered in the Philippines -- that called for the hijacking and crashing of commercial planes into buildings in the United States.

At the G-7 meeting in Ottawa this weekend, Japan's Finance Minister Masajiro Shiokawa sought to convince the six other industrialized nations that his country's economic woes would not undermine global growth.

The radical Kashmiri group Jaish-e-Mohammed is suspending operations in the rest of India in order to focus on freeing Kashmir from India.

Little more than a year ago, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.

As U.S. special forces, on a joint training exercise with local troops, move deeper into Muslim guerrilla territory in the southern Philippines, legal maneuvers continue to seek a temporary halt to the war games.

Maoist guerrillas have attacked a police post in western Nepal just a day after the country's parliament approved a measure allowing continued use of the army to fight the rebels.

Indonesia's president has opened the world's biggest people-smuggling meet with a veiled attack on countries she accuses of acting in their own interests.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has blamed opponents of his war on terrorism for an attack on a Shiite mosque in Rawalpindi that killed 10 people and wounded 15.

The Royal Nepal Army has gunned down 76 Maoist rebels over the weekend in separate incidents in remote western districts, a government statement said.

Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada has suspended his entire legal team in all four criminal cases filed against him.

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon privately wondered whether a famous photograph of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack had been staged, newly released White House tape recordings show.

A group campaigning to stop the New Zealand government selling off the country's air force strike capability has lost its case in the Court of Appeal.

China's parliament head Li Peng has denied any knowledge of the alleged bugging of President Jiang Zemin's personal jet.

A photograph of gun-toting U.S. troops off-base and in civilian clothes has fueled the controversy surrounding the American military presence in the Philippines for joint exercises with local forces.

Despite the National Peoples Congress (NPC) reputation as a rubber-stamp, a spark or two should fly at the Chinese parliament's plenary session to open next Tuesday.

Afghanistan's interim government has said it will probe the bizarre killing of the country's minister of civil aviation and tourism.

Australia's Governor-General Peter Hollingworth will give evidence at an independent inquiry into allegations of a cover up of sexual abuse cases while he was Anglican archbishop of the diocese of Brisbane, Queensland.

Indonesia's president has opened the world's biggest people-smuggling meet with a veiled attack on countries she accuses of acting in their own interests.

Saudi Arabia denied Saturday that suspects in the killing of Afghanistan's tourism and civil aviation minister were in custody or even in the kingdom.

A 35-year-old man has had a harrowing encounter with a shark while paddling a kayak in the habor waters just a few kilometers west of downtown Sydney.

Railway and utility workers in South Korea have gone on strike after talks with the government broke down, leading the government to accuse the workers of betrayal.

South Koreans are not only concerned that the war on terrorism may be coming to the Korean peninsula, they fear the impact any financial assistance to the North will have on their economy.

State rail workers in South Korea have ended a two-day strike after reaching a deal with management.

Abu Zubaydah, the elusive 30-year-old Palestinian believed to be operational commander of al Qaeda, is hiding in Pakistan, knowledgeable sources said Thursday.

Heavy fighting has broken out between Tamal Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan navy in the deep seas off northeast Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels have reached an accord on an open-ended ceasefire, a prelude to peace talks that are being facilitated by the Norwegian government.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao will visit the United States soon as a sign that Beijing's next generation of leaders will be committed to improving Sino-U.S. relations.

The CIA on Monday fired a Hellfire missile from an unmanned aerial vehicle at a group of people in eastern Afghanistan that was believed to have included a prominent al Qaeda leader, U.S. officials told CNN Wednesday.

United States officials have expressed reservations about command during their role in war games with Philippine forces, Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr. has told a senate enquiry session.

The United States does not want to establish permanent military bases in Central Asia, but the Bush administration is interested in long-term engagement in the region, and in helping democracy to grow there, a top State Department official has said.

Aside from the occasional gang war and the handover of the territory to China a few years ago, Macau rarely makes world news.

Overseas domestic helpers are celebrating after the Hong Kong government decided not to cut their minimum wage.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Have you ever written to a soldier? Not someone you know in the military, someone you don't. One of those Dear Soldier letters mailed to some far-off person in uniform and in harm's way.

A U.S. air force general has said there is no chance of finding survivors in the crash of an American helicopter in the Philippines.

As I write this outside in the airport courtyard the Air Force chaplain is trimming the rose bushes.