Malaysia's ruling establishment has been accused of resorting to “gutter politics” as a bruising election campaign starts amid outrage over sex videos and opposition charges of sabotage.

The focus of weeks of hostile rhetoric on the Korean Peninsula has shifted from nuclear war to dialogue, but analysts warn the road to formal talks is longer and more challenging than it has ever been.

The death of a Chinese student in the Boston bombings presents a potential image nightmare for U.S. higher education, determined to counter perceptions that the United States is unsafe.

Spain's center-right government, under pressure from the Catholic Church and its ultraconservative wing, has vowed to “promptly” tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition Socialist Party which had eased access to the procedure.

America awoke Tuesday to images of carnage and the foreboding reality of terrorism in the homeland, which ended a run of luck and a largely peaceful 11 years since the September 11 attacks.

The public pledge of allegiance to al-Qaida by Syria's fiercest rebel group, Al-Nusra Front, serves the interests of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, analysts say.

After generations as part of one of Asia's most ethnically diverse societies, Myanmar's Muslims fear they are becoming “scapegoats” of its reform process following a wave of religious violence.

Cherry blossoms aren't the only things in bloom in the U.S. capital these days. Progress and bipartisanship are, if not in full flower, at least pushing through cracks in longstanding political gridlock.

Blamed for empty shop shelves from Europe to Australia, networks of baby formula traffickers are shipping milk powder to Chinese parents fearful of local products, and working ever harder to meet demand.

Picking through the Spartan remains of the jihadist camps dotting Inais valley in northern Mali, it is obvious to the French soldiers that their enemy is having a tough time of it.