World/Local News

LAHORE, Pakistan—A Pakistani high court has declined to rule on whether a detained CIA contractor arrested for shooting dead two Pakistanis has diplomatic immunity as the United States insists. The Lahore High Court Monday instead […] […]

SENDAI, Japan — The estimated death toll from Japan’s disasters climbed past 10,000 Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find […] […]

TAKAJO, Japan—Within the dark and fetid wards of the Senen General Hospital, some 120 patients lie in their beds or slumped in wheelchairs, moaning incoherently. “There is no food!” cries an old man in a […] […]

CHINA’S Premier Wen Jiabao rejected any comparison between his country and the unrest-hit Middle East, but said Beijing faced a tough test dealing with inflation and other hot-button issues. “We face extremely daunting tasks and […] […]

THIS is as close as Japan has come to the dreaded genpatsu shinsai scenario – a nuclear emergency breaking out in the chaos following a huge earthquake and destructive tsunamis. Once the crisis has passed, […] […]

TOKYO—Steeped in uncertainty, but striving to calm its people, the Japanese government struggled Monday to come to grips with the enormity of a national emergency that continues to grow. As the death toll from Friday’s […] […]

It was only after a long day of applying stitches, performing emergency surgeries and amputating limbs that had been torn apart by gunfire that the doctors took a moment to reflect on the brutality being […] […]

NEW YORK – Fourteen people have died when a bus returning to New York City from a casino overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. […] […]

BEIJING—Two Chinese dissidents who were sentenced to 10 years in prison for getting together to talk about political reform and posting their views online have been released after completing their jail terms, their fathers said […] […]