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Thai authorities have summoned two journalists, whose visas have been revoked following accusations they endangered national security, to a meeting at the immigration department.

About 10,000 South Korean workers have marched to central Seoul, demanding job security, shorter working hours and a halt to privatizing state-run companies, which they fear will spark mass layoffs.

About 10,000 South Korean workers have marched to central Seoul, demanding job security, shorter working hours and a halt to privatizing state-run companies, which they fear will spark mass layoffs.

Three bodies have been recovered from a U.S. military helicopter that crashed in the southern Philippines, killing all 10 people aboard, Pentagon officials said Friday.

As friends and colleagues of Daniel Pearl sought proof the kidnapped American reporter is still alive, Pakistani police temporarily detained one young man and had two others in custody Saturday in connection with making false claims about Pearl's status, the country's interior minister said.

East Timor has taken another major step towards nationhood after the territory's constituent assembly gave its approval to a draft of the future nation's constitution.

Though it won't raise the world's most famous shipwreck, plans are underway to build a full-sized replica of the Titanic as part of a shopping mall in Shanghai.

Following is the full text of the English-language statement, which refers to North Korea as the DPRK, the acronym of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:

The following interview between Al-Jazeera television correspondent Tayseer Alouni and Osama Bin Laden took place in October 2001. The following transcript of the interview, which was done in Arabic, is by a translator hired by CNN.

Two men suspected of involvement in the January 22 attack on an American government center in Kolkata, India, were brought to New Delhi early Saturday after they were deported by the United Arab Emirates, Indian officials said.

Pakistan's interior minister, Moinuddin Haider, said Saturday that two more people have been detained for questioning in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.

Two U.S. soldiers have suffered minor wounds in a fierce firefight at Afghanistan's Kandahar International Airport, military sources said Thursday.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged India and Pakistan to begin dialogue over the Kashmir dispute and offered United Nations help to begin the process.

The United Nations has pulled out of negotiations with the Cambodian government on establishing a special court to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, saying it could not guarantee the court's independence and impartiality.

The Australian Government will allow a United Nations Human Rights Commission representative to visit the controversial Woomera detention center in remote South Australia.

Military investigators have found documents, weapons and human remains that could determine if a recent U.S. airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed top al Qaeda officials, Pentagon officials said Monday.

Four months after prohibiting U.S. aircraft and pilots from flying over Afghanistan, the Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the ban.

The U.S. Central Command has opened a high-level investigation into whether U.S. forces killed friendly Afghans during a January 24 raid on a suspected terrorist compound north of Kandahar, CNN has learned.

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped last month on his way to interview a Muslim fundamentalist leader in Pakistan, has been killed by his abductors, officials said Thursday. The U.S. government condemned his killing as an outrage and his newspaper called it an act of barbarism.

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped last month on his way to interview a Muslim fundamentalist leader in Pakistan, has been killed by his abductors, officials said Thursday. The U.S. government condemned his killing as an outrage and his newspaper called it an act of barbarism.

A U.S. military operation was under way Thursday to deploy forces into the Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan where three days ago the CIA fired a Hellfire missile on a convoy believed to have included a prominent al Qaeda leader, military officials said.

The United States is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for the kidnapping and killing of journalist Daniel Pearl, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announced Wednesday.

A U.S. Air Force MC-130P crashed early Wednesday in a remote section of eastern Afghanistan, injuring all eight crew members, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.

Supporters of al Qaeda suspect David Hicks are hopeful he may be returned to Australia for trial following comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the weekend.

A military investigative team has found forensic evidence that could determine whether a recent U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan killed top al Qaeda officials, the U.S. Central Command said Sunday.

In the most significant expansion of the war on terror since the Afghanistan campaign, U.S. troops have begun deploying to a Muslim guerrilla stronghold in the southern Philippines.

They are hardened combatants tasked to open a new front in the global campaign against terror.

Intensive negotiations are under way with Pakistan for the extradition to the United States of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the top suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, the White House said Monday.

A U.S. helicopter carrying eight crew members and two passengers has crashed over water in the southern Philippines, the Pentagon said.

Peacekeepers fired shots and used batons to push back thousands of Afghans angry at missing out on tickets to an exhibition football match in Kabul.

An Open Letter from Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, to the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty:

The statement of Peter Kann, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Steiger, the newspaper's managing editor, on the death of kidnapped Journal reporter Daniel Pearl:

The managing editor of the Wall Street Journal appealed Monday for word from the kidnappers of reporter Daniel Pearl to work out Danny's safe release.

U.S. diplomats at the United Nations are putting pressure on the organization to continue its talks with the Cambodian government on bringing leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime to trial.

Steve Waugh will be replaced as captain of Australia's one-day cricket team, the Australian Cricket Board announced Wednesday.

The kidnapping of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the threatening warning aimed at American journalists to leave Pakistan by Saturday is not quelling CNN Correspondent Ben Wedeman's resolve to cover the news there.

The chief suspect in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, told a judge Thursday that as far as he knew, Pearl was dead. This contradicts his earlier assertion that Pearl, missing since January 23, was alive and in Karachi, Pakistan.

Delhi Zoo's tiger enclosure is resonating with the playful growls of four Indian white tiger cubs for the first time since their birth.

A whiteout on the northern Antarctic coast has forced a plane with Britain's Princess Anne on board to turn back to New Zealand.

They're like mysterious, blue ghost-shadows, the women of Kabul.

Lawyers acting on behalf of Australian al Qaeda fighter David Hicks, who is being held by the U.S. military in a prison camp in Cuba, have issued a writ demanding access to their client.

A leading gangster from one of Japan's biggest Yakuza crime syndicates has been shot dead in his hospital bed by a masked assailant, Tokyo police say.

Statement issued by Yusuf Islam, formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens, urging the kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to free him: