Asia Pacific
Richardson wins speedskating World Cup 1000 meters
Heather Richardson equaled the Thialf oval track record Saturday to win a 1,000-meter speedskating World Cup race, beating American teammate Brittany Bowe ...UN climate talks deadlocked over scope of pledges
U.N. talks on a new global warming pact spilled into the weekend as negotiators quarreled over what kind of information to include ...Eight dead, 100 missing in Indonesian landslide: official
A landslide triggered by torrential downpours has killed at least eight people and left 100 missing on Indonesia\'s main island of Java, ...Hong Kong police clear out main protest camp
Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final ...India 223-3 after Australia declares on 517-7 in 1st test
India\'s stand-in captain Virat Kohli helped the tourists to 223-3 at tea Thursday on the third day of the first test against ...Australian Senate inquiry finds government responsible for deadly asylum-seeker riots
The Australian government failed to protect asylum seekers in its custody during a deadly riot at an immigration detention center earlier this ...Hong Kong protesters given Thursday deadline to clear sites
Hong Kong\'s High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to ...Philippine capital braces for storm, as Hagupit leaves 27 dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened to a tropical storm as it churned close to the Philippine capital on Monday, after killing 27 people on ...Indonesian maid says tortured with vacuum cleaner tube in Hong Kong abuse case
An Indonesian domestic helper told a Hong Kong court on Monday that she had been tortured by her employer, with a vacuum ...Philippine typhoon weakens to a storm; 3 dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a storm Monday after it left at least three people dead and sent more than a million others ...