A TV cameraman sets up a camera at Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo,Friday, May 18, 2012. Asian stocks dived Friday after discouraging U.S. economic reports unnerved investors already worried about […]

Actress Ino Menegaki, dressed as a high priestess, lights the torch at a ceremony in Panathinean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to […]

A vendor counts Indian rupee banknotes at a wholesale vegetable market in Allahabad, India,Thursday, May 17, 2012. The Indian rupee hit a fresh all-time low against the dollar Wednesday, as […]

Protesters display placards and a replica of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea as they burn an effigy of a U.S. submarine USS North Carolina, currently on […]

Seattle ㅡ Connor Teige, 12, from Monroe, Wash., shows his sign supporting President Barack Obama during the president’s visit to the Paramount Theater one day after announcing his support for […]

Greece’s youngest political leader, Alexis Tsipras, is seeking a united left front that will call time on the harsh austerity that comes with an international bailout keeping Athens afloat. He […]

This Feb. 1, 2012 photo shows the Facebook logo on a computer screen in Berlin. Facebook will go public on May 18, a published report says, in one of the […]

ISTANBULㅡ Hundreds of thousands of people filled squares in Turkish cities on Tuesday to mark May 1, celebrated as Labor Day in Turkey and around the world. <Cihan> news@theasian.asia

YANGON – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, talks to medias during a press conference after meeting with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, at her lakeside residence […]