JAKARTA - From white water rafting in Bali to visiting temples on Java, former United States president Barack Obama's private family holiday is being closely tracked in Indonesia, where he spent four years as a child.
TOKYO - About 1,000 police fanned out across Tokyo on Thursday in a dragnet aimed at nabbing gangsters notorious for extorting companies on Japan's busiest shareholder meeting day of the year.
NEW DELHI - At midnight on Friday, India will introduce nationwide goods and sales tax with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking center-stage in parliament for what will be the country's biggest tax reform in the 70 years since independence from British colonial rule.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Once expunged from its official history, documents outlining the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran have been quietly published by the State Department, offering a new glimpse at an operation that ultimately pushed the country toward its Islamic Revolution and hostility with the West.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in, president of the Republic of Korea, may present a unified front over Pyongyang at the White House on Thursday and Friday, but tension over trade could puncture their effort to strengthen the US-ROK relations.
The global image of the United States has deteriorated dramatically since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to the latest Pew Center survey.
LONDON - When British inventor John Shepherd-Barron applied his mind to finding an easier way to access money while traveling, he likely did not predict how universally his idea would be accepted.
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia reached a major milestone on its road to peace on Tuesday with the final disarmament of the group known as the FARC.
DAMASCUS - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that his country won't forget the support of Russia, according to the presidential media office.
PARIS - A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software apparently sown in Ukraine caused disruption across the world on Tuesday.
SEOUL - Moon Jae-in, president of the Republic of Korea, departed for Washington on Wednesday for his first meeting with US President Donald Trump as pressure mounted on his administration to find ways of resolving the crisis over the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile shield.