Asia is rebounding fast from the depths of the global crisis. What explains this remarkable comeback? What challenges does the recovery pose to Asian policymakers?

Armed with maps and guidebooks, hordes of Chinese families set off across the nation this summer—but some had a hidden agenda to their holidays.

When Filipino migrant women workers in Hong Kong have free time on their (otherwise busy) hands, many of them will choose to grab hold of reading matter.

The lethal shooting spree at a US Army base Thursday dealt a blow to an American military already under severe strain from years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan and plagued by a rise in suicides and depression.

"It has nothing to do with sex," insisted Udo Schumacher, 64, as he stood, stark naked, on a beautiful but bracing beach in Prerow in what was once communist East Germany.

It is indeed an amusing equation where interest plus "professionalism" equals a business which amasses fortune.

I almost swallowed my tongue at the first bite. It must have been decades since I last tasted such fresh and delicious home-raised chicken.

Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study released Wednesday reveals.

It is 166 years since the publication of "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens' heartwarming seasonal story of redemption wrapped up in a biting indictment of 19th century capitalism.

Although her DNA has politics all over, Wan Baobao has little interest in it; she is more attracted to fashion.