Qin Yaqing outlines the impact of the U.S. pivot to Asia on China's relationship with the United States and explains why the world's perception of China's rise is the country's biggest foreign policy concern.

Cui Zhiyuan outlines the main priorities of China's new leadership and explains how the country is already implementing strategies to deal with rapidly growing urban areas.

Despite negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program, the diplomatic approach has continued to result in stalemate.

Rescue operations underway after an earthquake in Indonesia over the weekend.

Wildfires destroy tens of thousands of acres of mastic gum tree in Greece.

Russian cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station to prepare the outpost for a new module.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is meeting with the top NATO commander and senior Afghan officials.

More than 20 people are wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.

President Obama said if Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical or biological weapons against opposition forces, the U.S. would consider a military response.

Pakistani human rights officials report 943 "honor" murders of women in 2011.

As Syrians observe Eid, the holiday marking the end of the month-long Ramadan fast, activists say 100 people died on the first day of the three-day-long festivities.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton reacts.

As Afghans working with American troops continue to kill Americans, the issue has come to a head.