Sri Lankan opposition leader arrested

A former Sri Lankan general who ran against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January has been arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the country’s government, authorities announced.

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Some 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will find themselves lacking wives in 2020, partly because of the country’s one-child policy, which has led to the abortion of female fetuses, state media said Monday.

Relations between Cambodia and Thailand took a further turn for the worse Tuesday, after ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Phnom Penh to begin his new job there.

The top U.S. envoy for North Korea was headed for Pyongyang on Tuesday for the highest-level talks between the two countries since President Barack Obama took office.

A year ago, football’s finances seemed to be healthier than ever, bucking the trend of global economic hardship.

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.

A top Taliban leader has been arrested in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, a senior Pakistani military official told CNN.

Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in September, the government reported on Friday.

From inside Libya’s most secure jail a challenge to al Qaeda is emerging. Leaders of one of the world’s most effective jihadist groups have written a new “code” for jihad that challenges al Qaeda ideology.

Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who went missing last week in a river in western Afghanistan.

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Most people take their birth certificates for granted, but for millions of people around the world, they simply do not exist, causing them to miss out on fundamental rights, including access to free health care and education services, according to international charity, Plan.

An invitation to a state dinner is the most coveted invitation in Washington.

Microsoft stocks soar after the software giant reports quarterly sales and profit that fell from year-ago results but easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts.

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