Abdul Ahad driving through Taliban territory with a bodyguard. Frustrated by his perilous job, he has begun scouting potential smugglers to take him to Europe.
Young Afghans are abandoning their country, frustrated by endless war, a lack of prospects and the slow pace of change.
Ban Ki-moon said his request to see the democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had been rejected by Myanmar’s ruling generals.
A suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Thursday was the first singling out workers of Pakistan’s prized nuclear labs, military analysts and newspapers said.
South Korea and Japan also condemned the barrage of short-range missiles fired by the North, while Russia and China called for calm.
The multipronged attack in Paktika Province underscored the Taliban’s ability to fight the American-led coalition on multiple fronts.
A new military strategy seeks not just to oust the Taliban, but also to implant a government presence.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, asked the ruling generals to meet with the imprisoned democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mr. Mehta emerged as the leading light of India’s first post-colonial generation of Modernist painters.
Increasingly, indigenous communities in the Australian outback are restricting alcohol to reverse the effects of a drinking culture that has led to widespread alcoholism, violence and child abuse.
The jilbab, the Islamic style of dress in which a woman covers her head and neck, has become an issue in Indonesia’s presidential campaign.
Beijing is steering a push toward wind and solar power, while the U.S. is just starting.
Lee Si-kap's enthusiasm for satellite dishes has helped to provide a valuable link between the community of foreign brides in South Korea and their homelands.
At the Dalai Lama’s urging, exiled monastics seek more physical knowledge.
Young people in Japan, who are unemployed at nearly double the overall rate, have started taking to the streets in anger, in protests rarely seen in the country.
The Beijing suburb of Donggaocun, a manufacturer of string instruments, is trying to position itself as the violin capital of China.
In Japan, the closely watched Tankan survey of big manufacturers bounced back from a record low it hit in March, coming in at minus 48 in its June survey.
White House officials are starting to wonder if North Korea’s leader has sent them on a fishing expedition as they track a ship with a history of arms shipments.
A growing gay scene is contributing to the city’s already vibrant night life in ways once hard to imagine.
An Indian-American reflects on six years in a country undergoing revolutionary social transformation.
Shi Pei Pu, a k a “M. Butterfly,” once pressed upon me a gift of rare jewels, and to my shame, I accepted.
As Western retailers cut their orders for once-popular items like cashmere sweaters, the effects ripple all the way to Inner Mongolia, where Kashmir goats are raised for their soft hair.
The Pakistani military's battle with the Taliban is creating the country's worst refugee crisis since its partition from India in 1947, but many of the displaced aren't staying in refugee camps.
The push through the Swat Valley is seen as a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight its growing insurgency, which has spread substantially in the past two years.
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