After years of living in the public eye, with hundreds of thousands of adoring fans, the sponsorship deals, the million-dollar home, the dozens of staff to serve his every need -- suddenly, Tai Shan, a U.S.-born panda, is finding himself in a much quieter life.
After years of living in the public eye, with hundreds of thousands of adoring fans, the sponsorship deals, the million-dollar home, the dozens of staff to serve his every need -- suddenly, Tai Shan, a U.S.-born panda, is finding himself in a much quieter life.
Anti-government protesters launched a blood drive Tuesday to collect enough samples to douse the ministers' offices.
Sri Lanka's former army chief appeared before a military court Tuesday, on charges that he says are designed to remove him from politics.
Thousands of anti-government protesters have once again brought Thailand's capital to a standstill, as they seek to unseat a leadership -- led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva -- they say is illegitimate and undemocratic.
A five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been found safe, the British High Commission said Tuesday.
Indian investigators are probing a Tuesday pre-dawn firing on guards posted at a space research center, authorities said.
It's break time at the Seven Colors Elementary School, a privately-run school just an hour's drive from central Beijing. Scores of warmly dressed Chinese pupils are enjoying sunshine. Some play table tennis or skip rope. Others run around the flag pole, seemingly oblivious to the problem their parents face.
A coal mine fire in central China has killed 25 people, state-run media cited local government as saying.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected protesters' demands Monday that he call an early election and dissolve parliament, saying on national television that he would listen to the protesters but would not be forced to accede to their demands.
Tropical Cyclone Tomas battered Fiji's northern islands on Monday evening with gusts of up to 275 km/h (170 mph) and heavy rain, but weather officials had not received immediate reports of damage.
A bus plummeted 70 feet into a dry riverbed in northwestern India on Monday, killing at least 26 passengers and injuring 34 others, police said.
A series of deadly blasts in southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday was a message to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, according to a posting Sunday on a Taliban Web site.
Twelve suspected militants were killed in military airstrikes in Pakistan's tribal region, two Pakistani military officials told CNN.
Egypt has canceled the opening ceremony for a restored historic synagogue in Cairo in retaliation for restrictions that Israel has placed on a Muslim holy site in Jerusalem, an Egyptian official said Sunday.
Tens of thousands of protesters poured into the center of Bangkok Sunday, bringing the city to a virtual standstill in an effort to topple the Thailand government.
Thailand braced for anti-government demonstrations that began Friday and were expected to peak over the weekend with as many as 150,000 protesters on the streets.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was discharged from a hospital in Seoul on Sunday after being treated for a stomach virus.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens in the northwest part of the country Saturday, authorities said.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus, a doctor told CNN.
Malaysian authorities have arrested a boatload of ethnic minorities fleeing Myanmar off the holiday island of Langkawi.
Raveendran Jenatha doesn't exude the kind of excitement and wonder young adults often do when it comes to figuring out their future. She is 21 years old and confident about what her future holds.
Twin suicide blasts in Lahore killed at least 39 people and injured 95 others Friday in a high-security area with a dense military presence, local police said.
Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.
Talking to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan may help bring peace to the country, according to a former Pakistan spy chief once referred to as the "father of the Taliban."
Australia rescued 32 people seeking asylum this week after spotting them floating on boats off the country's northwest coast.
Pakistan's navy said it test-fired missiles in the Arabian Sea on Friday to send a message to "anyone harboring nefarious designs" against the country.
It's break time at the Seven Colors Elementary School, a privately-run school just an hour's drive from central Beijing. Scores of warmly dressed Chinese pupils are enjoying sunshine. Some play table tennis or skip rope. Others run around the flag pole, seemingly oblivious to the problem their parents face.
Authorities in Pakistan were backing away from reports that they had arrested Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda.
For many, tattoos can be a sign of rebellion, individuality or fashion; but in Thailand, tattoos have a whole different meaning.
Myanmar's ruling junta announced Wednesday a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.
An international aid organization temporarily suspended its operations in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province after an attack on its office Wednesday killed six employees, the group's spokesman said.
India has signed onto a U.N. climate change agreement aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, becoming one of the last major nations to do so, the country's environment minister told parliament.
The suspected mastermind behind the deadly Bali bombings in 2002 has been killed by Indonesian police, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday.
After surveying training camps in eastern Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates hinted Wednesday that U.S. troops could be leaving earlier than the announced July 2011 troop withdrawal date.
Indonesian authorities killed the suspected mastermind behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday.
India's upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.
Indian lawmakers began debating a landmark bill aimed at reserving one-third of the seats in the federal parliament and in state assemblies for women.
Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan vowed that coalition forces "are absolutely going to secure Kandahar," as security efforts expand in the country's south.
Jerry Yellin has spent most of his life trying to forget about the stench of death on the island of Iwo Jima 65 years ago.
A trial for nine terror suspects accused of having ties to al Qaeda opened in a Belgian court Monday, with the main defendant suspected of nearly launching a terror attack just hours before a 2008 European Union summit in Brussels.
A senior militant Taliban leader refuted reports Monday that he had been killed in a Pakistani military airstrike in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border.
Angry protests disrupted India's parliament several times Monday over a landmark but contentious bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.
The identity and nationality of an alleged al Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan remained shrouded in mystery and conflicting information Monday, a day after Pakistani officials said one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists was in custody.
The Taliban said Monday it was behind a suicide bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore that killed 13 people and wounded 113 others.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday morning on an unannounced visit, as NATO-led coalition forces are pressing an offensive in the nation's south.
A pre-dawn earthquake collapsed homes and killed at least 38 people in a mountainous region of southeastern Turkey on Monday, government officials said.
Marines killed seven suspected Abu Sayyaf members during a pre-dawn raid in the southern Philippines, state-run media reported.
A top Taliban leader has been arrested in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, a senior Pakistani military official told CNN.
Pakistani security forces fought back an insurgent attack early Thursday killing 30 militants in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said.
Weeks after a firefight in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province, a story has emerged of a British pilot who was struck in the head by a bullet and still managed to safely land a helicopter full of casualties, medical personnel and troops.
Conflicting reports emerged Sunday about whether Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to Marjah on Sunday to see the gains made after a massive military offensive by Afghan and international troops to wrest control of the southern city from the Taliban.
North Korea said Sunday it would no longer move forward with nuclear disarmament in response to a planned U.S.-South Korean joint military exercise.
Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.
The captors of a kidnapped 5-year-old British boy included someone who was close to the family, Pakistan's Interior Minister said Sunday.
More than two dozen militants were killed Friday in a Pakistani military airstrike that targeted high-value Taliban leaders, a Pakistani military official told CNN on Saturday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, his office said.
A State Department inspector general's report says the U.S. Embassy staff in Afghanistan suffers from morale problems, overwork and the constant demands of visiting VIPs, which the report calls "war tourism."
A strong earthquake with magnitude 6.5 struck Friday night in the ocean southwest of Sumatra in Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A South Korean couple arrested for allowing their baby to starve to death had been raising an online child, state media reported citing police sources.
Along a narrow dirt road lined with tall palm trees sits a little community surrounding a school.
China's parliament opens its annual session on Friday, as policymakers seek answers to some Western sounding problems. The National People's Congress is expected to tackle boosting people's incomes, bridging the rich-poor divide, curbing rampant corruption and mitigating environmental degradation.
As many as 63 people -- most of them children -- were killed Thursday when a stampede broke out at a temple offering free utensils and food in northern India, authorities said.
Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial in Kuala Lumpur on sodomy charges for a second time, speaks to journalist Wajahat Ali about the controversy and discusses the country's ethnic and religious conflicts as well as issues facing the Muslim world.
Aftershocks rattled southern Taiwan in the hours after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the island, but left it relatively unscathed.
A senior paramilitary officer was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the killing of a schoolboy, a death that prompted clashes between anti-India protesters and Indian security forces.
A British boy has been abducted in Pakistan, authorities confirmed Thursday.
A terrorist group might be planning attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Singapore's navy warned Thursday.
Neil Garscadden glances out across the pub, the music blaring and the taps just starting to flow for the night.
Indian intelligence officials have received tips that terrorist groups may be planning an attack on the country using paragliders, the country's junior home minister told parliament.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries.
A fatwa, or religious ruling, issued this week is roiling theological waters after it took aim at those notorious for targeting others: terrorists.
An Indian military jet crashed during an air show in southern India Wednesday, killing the pilots and injuring two civilians on the ground, authorities said.
Until recently, he had rarely appeared in public. But now, he has been named to China's top advisory body.
Prosecutors presented their case Tuesday against five Americans arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting terror attacks.
Two key Taliban commanders were killed in a shootout with security forces in the most recent Pakistani offensive against the Islamic militants, according to the Pakistani military.
The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last year appears in a newly released video, claiming to have tricked Jordanian intelligence officers as a double agent.
Tsunami warnings were canceled for all countries Sunday, a day after a deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile, forecasters said.
Kabul's police chief and chief of criminal investigations have submitted their resignations to the Afghan Interior Ministry, but the ministry ordered them to complete their probe into Friday's suicide attacks first, a ministry spokesman told CNN.
A celebration of China's lunar new year turned deadly as a firecracker explosion killed 19 and wounded dozens, state media reported Saturday.
A tsunami advisory announced shortly after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's Ryukyu Islands early Saturday has been canceled, Japan's Meteorological Agency reported.
Despite revelations in a congressional investigation of a subsidiary's mismanagement and questionable vetting of employees, the company formerly known as Blackwater could soon win millions of dollars in new job orders for work in Afghanistan.
Deadly blasts targeting foreign nationals in the Afghan capital Friday killed at least 17 people and wounded many others.
Authorities raised the Afghan flag over the battle-scarred enclave of Marjah on Thursday, a ceremony symbolizing the presence of the Afghan government in the Taliban stronghold.
Turkish police launched a second wave of raids rounding up military officers tied to the alleged "Sledgehammer" coup plot.
Thailand's supreme court Friday found the country's former prime minister guilty of abuse of power and seized a big chunk of his fortune.
Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected Friday an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn her house arrest.
The resumption of talks between India and Pakistan on Thursday was critical in restoring trust and confidence that eroded after the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries said Thursday.
Two huge explosions shook Afghanistan early Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 21 others, a hospital coordinator said.
Turkey's president held crisis talks Thursday with the prime minister and top military general and sought to calm tensions amid news of an alleged coup plot to overthrow the government.
A militant wanted in connection with an attack on a U.S. consulate in Pakistan four years ago was killed in a missile strike in the country's tribal region, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday.
Doctor Gina Puspita greets our crew with a warm, genuine smile on the balcony outside the headquarters of Indonesia's "polygamy club."
The death toll among Indian security forces rose to four Wednesday in the second day of a firefight with militants in northern Kashmir, Indian authorities said.
Several key U.S. senators on Wednesday tore into private contractors working in Afghanistan for the company formerly known as Blackwater, accusing them of flouting regulations and endangering the U.S. mission.
Authorities in Turkey formally charged and imprisoned seven senior military officers Wednesday who are among 49 military leaders accused of trying to overthrow the government.
An Afghan government official said a tentative agreement was reached Wednesday to transfer a detained Afghan Taliban military leader from Pakistan to Afghanistan, but Pakistan quickly denied the assertion.
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