Category: Asia Pacific

JERUSALEM — Israelis were questioning whether the U.S. is committed to wiping out neighbor Syria's chemical weapons Sunday, a day after President Obama announced he was seeking congressional approval for...

While the Obama administration has been considering an armed intervention in Syria following the gassing deaths of hundreds of Syrian civilians, a vocal movement in Congress and among the general...

BEIJING (AP) — An earthquake hit a mountainous area in southwestern China Saturday morning, killing at least three people injuring several more, according to state media and the China Earthquake...

A jarring report out of North Korea claims that Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was executed by a firing squad last week.   Chosun Ilbo,an English language newspaper in South...

BEIJING — No sooner did China's Communist Party dispense with the corruption trial of party boss Bo Xilai then it was forced to confront yet another case of privileged party...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on...

Cutting cocaine with a blade. Picture: Thinkstock. USING cocaine once is enough to rewire the brain and cause addiction, according to new research. A new study, conducted on mice, shows...

A FIREFIGHTER who allegedly slapped a young boy for throwing Skittles at him in a Gold Coast cinema has faced court charged with assault. Blake Murray Abbott, 44, of Brisbane,...

(NEWSER) – Police in Australia have recovered the body of a swimmer snatched from a river by a crocodile in front of horrified friends. The body of the 26-year-old was...

After months of reluctance, the Obama administration now seems all but certain to retaliate against Syria for use of chemical weapons. And so it must if its suspicions are confirmed....