A highway in impoverished northwest Afghanistan has become a litmus test of President Karzai’s ability to govern the country.

Sen. Jim Webb met with the leader of Myanmar’s military regime as well as jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the weekend, and secured the release of U.S. citizen John Yettaw.

Taiwan’s president faces criticism over his response to the recent typhoon that killed hundreds on the island, as international aid trickles in.

North Korea agreed to restart family reunions and tourism by South Korean citizens, a move that could ease tensions and revive a steady income stream for the impoverished country

Afghanistan’s presidential elections will test the country’s army and police, which must protect nearly 7,000 polling places from Taliban attack.

U.S. Senator Jim Webb’s visit to Myanmar to meet with the reclusive leader of its military regime is casting renewed light on Washington’s frustrations in dealing with a country which seldom responds to tough economic sanctions.

With hopes for a genuinely competitive election slipping away, Afghans are getting a lesson in democracy from an unlikely source: reality television.

In a paradox of creation, new evidence suggests that devastating avalanches of cosmic debris may have fostered life on Earth, not annihilated it.

The Scottish government is considering whether to allow the former Libyan agent convicted of the U.K.’s deadliest terror attack to be released from prison and return home.

North Korea freed a South Korean worker it had been holding for more than four months, another sign Pyongyang is looking to restart talks.