Top Afghan police officials quit

Kabul’s police chief and chief of criminal investigations have submitted their resignations to the Afghan Interior Ministry, but the ministry ordered them to complete their probe into Friday’s suicide attacks first, a ministry spokesman told CNN.

China will suspend all public entertainment and lower flags to half staff on Wednesday as the nation mourns the 2,039 people killed in last week’s earthquake, the State Council said, according to Chinese media.

Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman has tipped Miguel Cotto “to pull out a decision” in his title bout with Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Authorities recovered more than 150 bodies Wednesday from a mountain pass in northern Afghanistan that was struck by a series of avalanches.

The remains of a U.S. Air Force major missing since the Vietnam War have been identified after years of searches, the Defense Department said.

World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao will make a second stab at the political arena next year, having registered to stand for Congress in his native Philippines.

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A building collapsed in a busy shopping center in central Jakarta on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 11 others, police said.

I always wanted to meet Steve Irwin. He was the quintessential Aussie who took manliness to a whole new level, wrestled man eating crocodiles, wrangled poisonous snakes and would pick up any of God’s creatures to show the world how remarkable animals really are.

Two suicide attackers, dressed as women, stormed a relief agency in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday and were killed by police before they could detonate their explosives.

Sri Lanka’s former army chief appeared before a military court Tuesday, on charges that he says are designed to remove him from politics.

Over half the world’s population now live in cities according to the United Nations.

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Three dairy executives will be prosecuted this week in China for selling melamine-tainted milk, state-run media reported.

Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes Monday to take up Wall Street reform, with a key Democrat voting with Republicans against the push to get the debate started.

President Obama stopped in Japan on the first leg of his trip to Asia Friday, stressing that United States and Japan “have been and will continue to be equal partners.”