China is tightening its regulation of online maps to clarify its territorial claims, state media reported Friday, a move that comes amid sharpening disputes with its neighbors over islands in the East and South China Sea.
As coaches take notes, teenagers dribble footballs through a course of cones on Ritan Middle School's gleaming artificial field in eastern Beijing, part of a massive program to promote soccer as a pillar of China's rise to global prominence.
As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride.
A group of militants attacked a Christian colony near Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar early Friday, triggering a shootout in which four attackers were killed and one Christian died, police and the military said.
Turkey, extremism and the European Union's evolving global strategy are on the agenda for foreign ministers of the 28-nation bloc as they gather in Slovakia's capital for a two-day meeting.
The hills of northern Myanmar's Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were ordered into the woods as a death sentence.
Mexico's president said that Donald Trump's proposals represent a threat to the future of his country and that he agreed to a widely criticized meeting with the Republican candidate to open a space for dialogue.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump's proposals represent a "threat" to his country, a day after the two men met in the Mexican capital.
Australia's prime minister said Friday that he "read the Riot Act" to lawmakers who caused the government to lose votes in Parliament by sneaking out early.
Haiti's longest and most punishing strike by medical professionals officially came to an end Thursday with young doctors returning to their jobs at the nation's biggest hospital after a nearly five-month walkout.
A strong magnitude-7.1 earthquake rattled the coast of New Zealand's North Island on Friday morning, triggering a small tsunami and shaking items from shelves but not causing any major damage or injuries.
A British Columbia police chief says nine people overdosed within a 20-minute period on what are believed to be drugs laced with fentanyl, adding that it's a miracle no one died as a result.
A former Guantanamo detainee new resettled in Uruguay is planning to start a hunger strike to demand he be allowed to leave the South American country.
The family of an American student who disappeared from China 12 years ago and was later declared dead said they believe he was abducted by North Korea -- where he's still being held captive.
