What is the Egyptian government doing to protect Coptic Christians?

Australia's relentless flooding has turned deadly as a woman drowned after trying to cross a flooded causeway, police said Sunday.

At least 21 people have died after a suicide-bomber detonated a device in the city of Alexandria.

In the past, Chinese officials insisted their foreign policy strategy was to "lie low".

Chilean officials and the U.S. Geological Survey say a magnitude-7.1 quake has shaken southern Chile, sending hundreds fleeing for higher ground for fear that it would generate a tsunami. (Jan. 3)

Pauline Chiou speaks with Mark Konyn of RCM on economic growth prospects for China and the rest of Asia.

A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded on Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, officials said. (Jan. 1)

Gordon Chang discusses whether China will continue to gain momentum on the U.S. in the New Year.

The Baltic state becomes the 17th country to join the euro zone despite the deepening crisis.

Xin Zhicong looks into the college testing gap between Shanghai students and their rural counterparts.

The German people have emerged stronger from Europe's economic crisis but there are testing times ahead of the euro, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute between the two nations. (Jan. 2)

Egypt's government says Saturday's bomb blast which killed 21 Christian worshippers in Alexandria was likely directed by "foreign elements."

West African regional military chiefs who convened at an ECOWAS meeting this week have set in motion plans to oust Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo ""if all political persuasions fail."

Janet Napolitano pays a surprise visit to Afghanistan.