May 2 marks one year since al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was slain by U.S. Navy SEALS in his compound in Pakistan.

China is acting like a traditional rising power.

Women in terrorist organizations, and counter terrorism.

Effigies of North and South Korea's respective leaders bear the brunt of escalating tensions.

A cab driver comes to the rescue of a pedestrian who plunges down a hole that suddenly opens in a pavement in northern China.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Defense Department has suspended the security clearance of military members who are being investigated in the Secret Service scandal. Panetta spoke aboard a military aircraft en route to Colombia on Monday.

An evaluation of the Obama administration's policy towards Syria and Iran

Thousands are forced to flee the fighting in Pakistan's Khyber Agency on the border with Afghanistan.

A rousing haka war cry by Maori actors kicked off a marathon programme of 37 Shakespeare plays in 37 languages on Monday as a cultural curtainraiser for the 2012 London Olympics.

Anti-regime activists said Syrian government forces have attacked the central city of Hama, killing more than 30 people one day after a visit by UN observers monitoring the country's shaky cease-fire.

Angelina Jolie makes her first trip as special envoy for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

Incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has been meeting with winemakers as he steps up campaigning ahead of a second voting round.

James Murdoch has blamed subordinates for keeping him in the dark about illegal behaviour when he ran his father Rupert's UK newspaper empire.