Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard set about rebuilding her Labor party’s tainted image Friday following a botched leadership coup, as a slew of ministers who support her archrival, Kevin Rudd, resigned. Gillard is facing an uphill battle as she attempts to claw back credibility ...

In a fresh blow to South Korea’s new president, Park Geun Hye, her nominee for defense minister stepped down Friday at a time of elevated military tensions with North Korea. Ever since his nomination, Kim Byung Kwan, a retired four-star general, has been dogged ...

A regional party from southern India announced Tuesday it was withdrawing from the national ruling coalition, weakening the government that was already a minority in Parliament. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), based in Tamil Nadu state, had been urging the government to condemn Sri ...

In his first speech as head of the world's most populous country, Chinese President Xi Jinping says he will fight for a "great renaissance of the Chinese nation."

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida mounted a fierce criticism of China as it named its new president, saying the Asian giant tortures its citizens, uses forced labor and is bent on global superiority. Rubio, a rising Republican star seen as a possible 2016 ...

In an unusually direct appeal, the Obama administration on Monday called on China to halt its persistent theft of trade secrets from corporate computers and engage in a dialogue to establish norms of behavior in cyberspace. The demands mark the administration’s first public effort ...