By some counts, at least half the foreigners living in the Chinese trade hub of Guangzhou are Africans. Many face hassles ranging from visa expiration to police raids.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S.-South Korean military drills are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war as a senior U.S. military commander toured an island devastated this week by a North Korean artillery barrage.
AP - An election Sunday for the governor of a southern Japanese island where a controversial U.S. Marine base is located is likely to cause more problems for Japan's relations with key ally, the United States, as both leading candidates want the base off the island.
The bodies of the two South Korean civilians killed this week by the North's artillery attack arrived today on the mainland for burial. Criticism of South Korea's measured response to the Tuesday shelling attack on Yeonpyeong Island, the North's first attack on civilians on South Korean soil since the Korean War ended 57 years ago, prompted the country's president to beef up defense measures.
Many U.S. families sat down today at a Thanksgiving dinner table with an empty chair, waiting for a loved one to come home from war. But U.S. troops on the front lines in Afghanistan took time to mark the Thanksgiving holiday, even at one of the most targeted bases in the country, one mile from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Fresh off serving an 18-month prison term in Australia related to the 2003 scuba-diving death of his newlywed wife, Tina, David Gabriel Watson was arrested Thursday after a grand jury in Alabama indicted him for murder.
PETN, an explosive favored by al Qaeda and the target of heightened TSA screening, has been found in a California home, authorities say. They described the house as a bomb-making factory.
Lee Hee-won, a presidential security aide, has been named South Korea's new defense minister after the resignation of Kim Tae-young a day earlier, the Defense Ministry's press office said Friday.
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