Following the election, will our counterterrorism policies change.

Madeline Albright: Public-private partnerships are particularly important for technology development.

Gideon Rose interviews Columbia University professor and author Andrew Nathan on China's global perspective and the current state of U.S.-China relations.

 Kenneth Pollack identifies the simulation's lessons for effective intervention in Syria, including the central importance of Turkey in the region.

Animals at the zoo cool off as Ukraine sweats through record-breaking heat.

Japan remembers victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing as nuclear energy continues to concern residents.

London zoo has been holding special animal athletic events to coincide with the Olympics taking place in the city.

Amateur video purports to show a mortar shell exploding during a funeral procession in Deraa.

The Obama administration is reaching out to the Taliban in an effort to release a US soldier.

Syria has become the bloodiest uprising of the Arab Spring and has now descended into a full-blown civil war.

After militants attacked an Egyptian security checkpoint, killing 16 border patrol guards, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi launched a crackdown in the dangerous Sinai peninsula where drug smuggling, human trafficking and militant terrorism are on the rise.

Amb. John Bolton looks at the conflict.

Michael Kurtzsays that the Bo Xilai case is a clear example from Beijing that it is cleaning up corruption from within the party.