President Hamid Karzai, his brother and another prominent set of brothers struck agreements that have publicly backfired.

Two White House officials were involved in a series of meetings in Beijing that were aimed at repairing a dialogue that has been strained.

A powerful blast ripped through a residential compound for police officials in Pakistan’s restive northwest, killing at least 18 people.

Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Exchange on Tuesday opened the Center for Financial Education, promoting it as Asia's first live trading lab within a university.

Two independent lawmakers said they will support Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ending weeks of political impasse.

Beijing officials have shelved a much-attacked plan to redevelop the Gulou Drum Tower neighborhood into a tourist spot with high-end stores.

A district governor from Baghlan Province was assassinated by Taliban insurgents on Monday night in the north of Afghanistan, officials said.

Declining salaries and an unstable labor market have led young Japanese to work additional jobs.

A bomber rammed a vehicle into a police station on Monday, killing 19 people and injuring at least 46, according to officials.

Workers’ Party delegates from across North Korea were converging in Pyongyang on Monday, as children and soldiers rehearsed a celebration for their country’s biggest political gathering in 30 years.

The chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan promised Monday to lend the embattled Kabul Bank “as much as it wants” to stave off a collapse.

Lack of funds and organizational issues have plagued a program meant to lure fighters away from insurgency.

An annual exodus called “mudik” at the end of Ramadan is a chance for city dwellers with rural roots to reconnect with their families — and to show off their success.

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck South Island last week caused $1.4 billion in damage and will hinder the country’s economic recovery, Prime Minister John Key said Monday.

The government found that as many as 200 commercial pilots may have falsified their résumés in 2008 and 2009, according to news reports.

The Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa has been in ill health, which limited his participation at the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto.

It was unclear how much money nervous depositors withdrew Sunday as fears of bankruptcy spread for the fourth consecutive day.

As devastating floods appear to widen divisions, Pakistani officials, some accused of ineptitude and favoritism, are trying to repair the political damage.

Yu Myung-hwan faced allegations that his ministry bent its regulations to hire his daughter.

A remote-controlled bomb detonated atop a parked motorcycle on Saturday, killing seven Afghans, according to local government and hospital officials.

Since riots between the Han and Uighur groups in 2009, the Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds and tried to soothe frayed nerves. But the push has done little to repair distrust.

The Afghan government scrambled to bolster the nation’s largest bank after depositors mobbed it for a third day.

The departing deputy commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan admitted that forecasts of quick success in Marja were off base.

A car rigged with explosives rammed into a police station in northern Tajikistan, killing two people and wounding at least 25 others in an apparent suicide attack, Tajik police officials said.

A 75-mile jam between metropolitan Beijing and Inner Mongolia has caught national attention.

The explosion, two days after another attack, killed at least 40 people, as militants intensify their campaign to destabilize the Pakistani government.

Yet another gargantuan traffic jam has gripped the freeway that links Inner Mongolia’s coal fields to metropolitan Beijing, possibly exceeding a blockage that drew global attention last month.

Observers will closely monitor the number of creditors who try to withdraw their assets from Kabul Bank in anticipation of an increasing financial crisis.

With a jail sentence looming and vigilantes after him, the editor of Indonesia’s now-defunct Playboy magazine says he was never in the pornography business.

Street markets remained closed early on Thursday and police mounted patrols after a suicide attack claimed 31 lives among a procession of Shiite Muslim worshippers.

In her bid to break a parliamentary deadlock, Prime Minister Julia Gillard won the tentative support of a key independent legislator from Tasmania.

The United States defense secretary made remarks about corruption and banking along with civilian casualties and troop withdrawal.

A bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown at Kabul Bank, while depositors were unable to withdraw money.

Did the attack in northern Afghanistan hit a team of election campaign workers, including a parliamentary candidate, or a group connected with an Uzbek terrorist network?

Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.

North Korea’s leader is to convene a ruling party meeting where it is expected that his son will be given an official post, a step on the road to leadership.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a formal assurance from the Greens Party that it will support her bid for a further three-year term.

The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.

In war, emotions run high. Adam Ferguson has found that can help as well as hinder, Eirini Vourloumis reports.

A firefight erupted inside an Iraqi Army base north of Baghdad.

The rifle had been looted as a war trophy by an American soldier after the 2003 invasion.

I've been trying to sit Indian-style with the Afghan people for this entire tour in Afghanistan, and my foot is starting to fall asleep.

Troops from nearly 50 lands dine on combat meals in Afghanistan each reminding them of where they’d rather be.

Pakistani coverage of a deadly attack on a Shiite protest in the city of Quetta and clashes in the aftermath between angry mourners and local police.

Pakistan's top diplomat in Britain suggested on Thursday that three of his nation's cricket stars, accused of agreeing to take part in a betting scam, were "innocent" victims of a plot against them.

From Taiwan to Abu Dhabi to Afghanistan, there is anecdotal evidence that attention is being paid to the furious debate over mosque-building projects in American cities.

The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.