• After Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election, protesters and riot police filled Tehran, shutting it down for days in a series of demonstrations some called the "green revolution." This time around, with another presidential vote scheduled for June, the Iranian authorities appear to be taking ...
  • TEHRAN — The final list of candidates approved to run in Iran’s June 14 presidential election was announced Tuesday, generating surprise and tension with the omission of a former president considered one of the founding members of the Islamic Republic. Read full article >>    
  • TEHRAN — Relief for Iran’s ailing economy will be the top priority of Iranians on June 14, when they vote to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. Foreign policy, however, will take on extra significance in the election, ...
  • Iran has a presidential election coming up and, earlier this month, former two-term president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani submitted his bid for candidacy. Rafsanjani, a powerful figure who is considered more moderate than othe...
  • MUSCAT, Oman – Iran has sent soldiers to Syria to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia, a senior State Department official said Tuesday. Read full article >>    
  • BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement pressed an offensive Monday to retake the strategic border town of Qusair amid reports of heavy casualties on both sides. Read full article >>  ...
  • When I switched from biking to work to riding the subway, one cost of my laziness was a loss of privacy during the daily commute. Personal space can get scarce on the train and, though most fellow riders are polite, some are not. Though as a male I've been spared the come-ons and gropes some fema...
  • KUALA NAMU, Indonesia — The state-of-the-art $527-million Kuala Namu International Airport rises elegantly out of degraded plantation and swamp land 18 miles from the rapidly expanding city of Medan, the biggest on the resource-rich island of Sumatra. Read full article >>    
  • JERUSALEM -- The invasion of billions of locusts from North Africa has been ongoing here for three months. Israel's hi-tech agriculturalists have tried everything in their fight against this modern day plague of sorts. Read full article >>    
  • The climbing season that started with a brawl on the highest mountain in the world has seen a record number of people reach the top of Mt. Everest, some making new records while others sought to break old ones. Read full article >>    
  • Many climbers dream of reaching the peak of the world's highest mountain at least once in their lifetime.
  • In 2010, Chinese hackers infiltrated a special database within Google's systems that would have identified which user accounts had been flagged by the FBI or court orders for investigation, the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima reports. Around the same time, they also tried to break into a simila...
  • JERUSALEM — Israeli military and Syrian regular army troops exchanged fire early Tuesday along the cease-fire line in the occupied Golan Heights, an area that has become a potential flashpoint for spillover from the civil war in Syria. Read full article >>    
  • Pakistan’s presumptive prime minister called Monday for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army. Read full article >>    
  • KABUL — Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, including a suicide bombing Monday that killed a provincial council head, hopes of stirring life into peace talks with the Islamist insurgents seem to be dying here with each new suicide attack, k...
  • A new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, "Small World Machines," starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: "Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more and more exchange," a woman, either Indian or Paki...
  • Earlier this month, North Korean state media finally revealed the country's case against an American citizen named Kenneth Bae, who had been detained there since November. They listed three accusations: that he had smuggled in a critical documentary film, that he had plotted to bring the governme...
  • Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials. Read full article >>    
  • A year of stunning revelations have made many Americans aware that Chinese hackers, some of them believed to be associated with the country's military, have infiltrated just about every powerful institution in the District, from federal agencies to think tanks to, yes, media organizations. But le...
  • COUNTY LOUTH, Ireland — The narrow, winding road along the border between counties Armagh and Louth looks like any other in rural Ireland. But the video cameras on trees leading to the farm of Thomas “Slab” Murphy, a suspected smuggler and former IRA leader, and monuments to the “disappear...
  • KABUL – A local Afghan leader who had been involved in efforts to defeat the Taliban was killed Monday in a suicide bombing that left 12 others dead as well, and nine injured, officials said. Mohammad Rasoul Mohseni was the head of the provincial council in Baghlan Province in northeastern Afgha...
  • BEIJING – Armed North Koreans are holding a Chinese fishing boat and its crew ransom despite the protestation of Chinese officials, the boat’s owner said Monday. The boat’s seizure – which occurred in early May, but was only revealed by Chinese officials Sunday night — is latest dust-up ...
  • North Korea, China's longtime ally, has vexed Beijing for years with its rocket launches, nuclear tests, kidnapping of Chinese fishermen and other erratic behavior. Yet, Beijing has run interference at the United Nations to temper...
  • For many in this car-crazy nation, the freedom to hurtle down the famed autobahn at 120 mph or more is an inalienable right. Germany, one of the world’s top car producers, is alone among industrial countries in allowing drivers to decide for themselves how fast to race along the highway. So a p...
  • Will your car and bicycle tires be made from dandelions in the future? A Dutch biotech firm thinks so. CNN's Nick Glass investigates how the ubiquitous weed's latex roots could help rubber shortages in the future.

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