China: Hacker training site shut down

Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.

The City of Light has a special appeal in winter. Though the weather can be cold and rainy, if you dress in layers you’ll easily deal with temperature changes as you go from cold streets to heated museums and cafes.

Two passengers aboard a cruise ship were killed when 26-foot waves crashed into the vessel Wednesday off France, officials said. Up to 14 others were injured.

After two years of waiting, Google Android phones are finally hitting the market en masse

More than 200 former fighters and other members of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army — including minors — were discharged from a Maoist camp in line with Nepal’s ongoing peace process, officials said.

A U.S. citizen has been charged with alleged involvement in planning last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the Justice Department said Monday.

In the first interview since a runoff in Afghanistan’s presidential election was announced, incumbent Hamid Karzai downplays accusations of widespread fraud during the vote and pledges to respect the will of the Afghan people.

Civilians, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike by coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.

Royal Caribbean has been taking heat for taking vacationers to Haiti after the earthquake, but experts in ethics and sustainable tourism say travelers should be going to Haiti now.

A fire at a karaoke bar and discotheque in Medan, in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, killed at least 20 people Friday night, according to a hospital.

The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of warning college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break.

The global demand for palm oil, used to make soaps, chocolates, margarine and cosmetics, is contributing to major deforestation in Indonesia.

Three days after a consumers’ group called for a meat boycott, the head of Argentina’s beef industry said Thursday prices will fall by week’s end.

Employers are ramping up bonus payments this year to help retain the best workers as the economy slowly improves, according to a consulting firm survey released Thursday.

Google and Yahoo plan to fight a lawsuit filed last week by Xerox, which claims that the two search-engine giants infringed on the copier and printing company’s patents.

Philippines police say that at least two people who were at the scene of last month’s massacre in the country’s south have implicated a mayor as being involved in the killings, state media reported Thursday.