Maritime security challenges are increasingly at the center of Asia-Pacific region.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death announced on state television.

With the 17th annual global climate change talks foundering in Durban, little hope is left for a worldwide initiative designed to combat global warming.

There are signs the young, untested Kim Jong Un will succeed his late father as ruler of isolated North Korea. One dispatch from Pyongyang said the people and the military have pledged to uphold his leadership.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Stauss-Kahn spoke at a business conference in Beijing on Monday. He commented on the European economic crisis. Stauss-Kahn resigned as Managing Director of the IMF in May,

Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as "Absurdistan" and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule.

Egypt's central security forces, backed by army conscripts, use batons to disperse protesters at Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Video captured by a U.S. Air Force Preditor drone shows the last convoy of U.S. soldiers crossing the border out of Iraq, completing the withdrawal after nearly nine years of war.

Hans Vriens, Managing Partner at Vriens and Partners, discusses China's pivotal role in smoothing over the upcoming political transition process in North Korea.

Twenty-something Kim Jong-un is likely successor.

The blog-o-sphere is boiling at the cruel beating of a female protester by Egyptian military police, who continued battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday.

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il both died Sunday. P.J. Crowley, and Jamie Rubin, discuss how both leaders were vastly different and what impact they leave on their countries.

Former Marine Ilario Pantano on his experience in Iraq and efforts to grow a foreign business in the country.

Richard Haass, John Heilemann, Mike Barnicle, and Mark Halperin – discusses the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the age of 69.