With Moscow suffering its own financial and budgetary problems, a $5.4 billion loan to a small, cold country seems surprising. Or is it?
Former rebels receive long jail terms for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearance expert and his Cambodian interpreter
Privately scoffing at the U.S., European governments move to take partial control of their banks — in spite of the spotty record of state intervention
The West has a rescue plan for its financial system, but struggling emerging economies may have to go it alone
The first reaction is positive to ambitious rescue plans hatched over the weekend by U.S. and European governments
Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again
The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found ... in a Syrian jail.
The state media previews of the just-ended Communist Party plenum gave strong indications of a major reform in rural land policy. But the devil is in the details.
Three years after a devastating earthquake and landslides formed a new lake in Kashmir, Pakistan, tourists come to see the lingering damage
Australian photographer Ben Baker wrangles some of the world's most powerful men and women to pose between meetings, receptions and attendance at the 63rd session of the General Assembly
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