Mar 11, 2010 — BEIJING - For a second straight year, the Chinese government has increased security across parts of the vast Tibetan plateau to dissuade any Tibetans from holding protests this week to mark the anniversaries of ethnic uprisings.

Mar 11, 2010 — AP BRUSSELS -- Russia's envoy to NATO is criticizing the alliance's military strategy in Afghanistan - where the emphasis has shifted away from fighting drug trafficking - saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia's national ...

Mar 11, 2010 — GREECE Rioters clash with police in Athens during a demonstration against the financially crippled Greek government's austerity plan.

Mar 11, 2010 — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan met with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Thursday in a show of public friendship, with both leaders stressing that stability for their countries hinged on mutual ...

Mar 11, 2010 — Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, accompanied by his wife, Cecilia Morel, during his inauguration ceremony at the Congress in Valparaiso on Thursday.

Mar 10, 2010 — SYDNEY - Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

Mar 10, 2010 — The task of knocking down, smashing apart and hauling away the mountain range of rubble left by the Jan. 12 earthquake will take years and cost as much as $1 billion.

Mar 10, 2010 — CAIRO - Sheik Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egypt's chief religious official and leader of Al Azhar, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, died Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, ...

Mar 10, 2010 — Photo: AP Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Washington with his own words, as he appeared at a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

Mar 10, 2010 — Photo: AP US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says US forces in Afghanistan may start handing over security responsibilities to Afghan authorities before the July 2011 target date.

Mar 10, 2010 — Russia has launched a criminal inquiry following claims that traffic police used civilian motorists as a "human shield" to stop suspected criminals.

Mar 10, 2010 — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad has made him the target of Muslim anger said on Wednesday he had received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.

Mar 10, 2010 — Photo: AP Tibet's exiled spiritual leader is expressing frustration in his latest assessment of the situation in his homeland.

Mar 10, 2010 — KABUL - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used a brief visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday to lob insults at the United States and argue that international forces won't stop terrorism and will only lead to more civilian deaths.

Mar 10, 2010 — Police inspected the offices of aid group World Vision in Oghi, Pakistan on Wednesday after militants killed at least six people there in an attack.