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- Japanese leader revives dark memories of imperial-era biological experiments in China
- Photos of Ai Weiwei's latest work, a response to China's baby milk scandal
- Get caught up on Benghazi, in five short paragraphs
- 5 insights on the racial tolerance and ethnicity maps, from an ethnic conflict professor
- Disturbing video: Greek member of parliament shouts 'heil Hitler' during session
- North Korea condemns media freedom but praises two U.S. reporters
- A revealing map of the world's most and least ethnically diverse countries
- A dazzling documentary about pop music in China's Muslim-majority province
- Map: How the world voted on a U.N. resolution for political transition in Syria
- A fascinating map of the world's most and least racially tolerant countries
- Chinese petitioner, after asking White House for help, visited by Chinese police
- New Zealand may declare a war on cats
- Japanese Web users debate whether politician was right to call wartime sex slavery 'necessary'
- A heartbreaking photo of a young Syrian girl selling bread amid destruction
- How Europeans stereotype one another, in one chart
- 5 signs there's something fishy about the alleged CIA spy arrested in Moscow
- Here's the spy recruitment letter allegedly found on CIA agent in Moscow
- Photos, video of alleged American CIA spy's arrest in Moscow
- Here's the story the AP suspects led to sweeping Justice Dept. subpoena
- Video of Czech president staggering through ceremony has many wondering if he was drunk
- Passenger captures video of Beijing airport brawl between passengers and employees
- Six ways Assad has turned the tide in Syria
- Revolutionary fast food: Anthony Bourdain samples Libya's 'Uncle Kentaki' chicken
- Should the Newseum consider cameramen for Hamas-run TV to be journalists?
- Robert Gates on Benghazi: 'There just wasn't time'
- The real roots of China-Japan tensions
- Video: Iranians rally in support of Rafsanjani's surprise presidential candidacy
- Dennis Rodman returning to N. Korea to free Kenneth Bae: Could it actually work?
- Photos from Guantanamo's force-feeding facilities
- This powerful video shows Iran's worsening crackdown on journalists
- Is this the documentary that got a U.S. citizen sentenced to hard labor in North Korea?
- North Korean 'traffic girl' may have won military award for saving Kim Jong Un poster
- Mystery surrounds North Korea's bizarre decision to grant top military honor to traffic cop
- Syrian pro-Assad hacker insists attacks are funny: 'Haters gonna hate'
- Video: Burkina Faso's foreign minister faints in the middle of a press conference
- Pakistan's plight, in one striking chart
- Video: This Syrian rebel doesn't need hands to fire his Kalashnikov
- Here's how Kim Jong Un probably translated Dennis Rodman's 'do me a solid' tweet
- How did Syria cut off the entire country from the Internet?
- Here's a map of the best and worst countries to be a mother
- Web monitor: 'Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet'
- Here's North Korea's new official song, with creepy music video
- Anti-American countries can become pro-American. Here's how South Korea did it.
- This is how sarin kills
- Syrian hackers seize The Onion's Twitter account, aren't very funny
- Syrian chemical weapons reports get murkier
- 'Atheists must be hanged': Raw video from Islamist street clashes in Bangladesh
- Astonishing video from the Israeli airstrikes on Syria
- New U.S. representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan is critic of Biden on war
- The study that shows why China and India probably won't clash over border dispute
- Why it's great news that China wants to mediate Israel-Palestine talks
- A distressing map of religious freedom around the world
- What happens when a Guantanamo detainee gets force-fed
- What the Muslim world believes, on everything from alcohol to honor killings, in 8 maps, 5 charts
- China's version of Google marks Worker's Day by banning discussion on Marx, 'labor,' 'strikes'
- 64 percent of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam
- Obama may arm Syrian rebels: Why now?
- Why hasn’t Obama closed Guantanamo Bay?
- Map of the world’s 25 best airports, according to that study Obama is so upset about
- Video: Obama reiterates Syria 'red line' but vague on response if crossed
- Obama's correspondents dinner speech is a big hit in China, with 25 million views
- Why Mexican opinion of the U.S. is at its most positive in years, in charts
- Turkish airline, wary of unruly passengers, may ban alcohol on flights from Russia
- Map: Why women in some countries still say domestic violence is okay
- This map of global economic confidence shows optimism finally returning
- Video: Amateur singer's heartbreaking song for Syria sweeps the Arab world
- A family's journey: The story of the Tsarnaevs and their life-changing travels, in one chart
- Video: This is what Bollywood musicals sound like -- with no music
- Yes, it's a big deal if Syria crossed the chemical weapons 'red line.' Here's why.
- Half of Americans can't identify Syria on a map (young Republicans do slightly better)
- What is Obama's red line on chemical weapons and what happens if Syria crosses it?
- Three important caveats on the Syria chemical weapons report
- Kafka at Gitmo: Why 86 prisoners are cleared for release but might never get it
- How a boar hunt gone awry toppled Moldova's government and might bring back communists
- China's bird flu outbreak: 3 good signs, 3 bad signs and 3 very bad signs
- Muslim Brotherhood post from 2007: 'Don't be like the Jews and the Christians'
- Syrian hackers claim AP hack that tipped stock market by $136 billion. Is it terrorism?
- Here's the song so bad it's got the Netherlands in an uproar and is ruining the king's big day
- Japan's no-apology diplomacy: Why a small Tokyo shrine is causing big trouble in Asia
- North Korea's official response to Boston bombing cites conspiracy site World Net Daily
- Syria's pro-Assad hackers are hijacking high-profile Twitter feeds
- Video: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's teacher in Kyrgyzstan says he was affected by Chechen conflict
- Saudi Arabia grapples with surprisingly complicated politics of weekends
- Boston bombing suspects: What the Kyrgyzstan connection means
- 9 questions about Chechnya and Dagestan you were too embarrassed to ask
- Chechen president on Boston suspects: 'Look for the roots of their evil in America'
- YouTube account that belongs to a person named Tamerlan Tsarnaev had bookmarked videos on terrorism
- Leaked video shows Vladimir Putin berating cabinet ministers
- Despite harsh words for North Korea, China deepens economic ties
- A stereotype-busting map of the countries where children are most likely to get drunk
- UNICEF: U.S. kids worse off than many of their Western counterparts
- Iran condemns the Boston bombing, with a caveat
- Knowledge of pressure-cooker bombs is not limited to readers of al-Qaeda's 'Inspire' magazine
- The other Saudi Arabians at the Boston Marathon
- China sees the best and worst of America in Boston bombing
- Senior Muslim Brotherhood official links Boston blasts to global anti-Muslim conspiracy
- 'Please don't be a Muslim': Boston marathon blasts draw condemnation and dread in Muslim world
- Map: How 35 countries compare on child poverty (the U.S. is ranked 34th)
- Here's the brilliant SNL skit on the pro-Thatcher punk band that never was
- Can the U.S. widen the gap between China and North Korea?
- Letter from Gitmo: A detainee writes from day 65 of his hunger strike
- Is political satire rising in China?
- Video: North Korea threatens to strike Colorado Springs but doesn't know where it is
- How seriously should you take that scary intelligence report about North Korean nukes?
- A surprising map of the countries where banks are most and least trusted
- Electoral analysis predicts Egyptian support for Islamists likely to slide
- Poll shows Americans are obsessed with North Korea, overstate its threat
- Why China loves 'The Daily Show'
- Chart: Americans are more interested in North Korea than Beyonce or Obama right now
- Skeletons discovered in home of deposed Central African Republic president
- Uzbekistan officials call Harlem Shake 'a vortex full of meaninglessness and shamelessness'
- The idiosyncratic geopolitics of Jay-Z and Beyonce's perfectly legal trip to Cuba
- Report: China may be shutting down some tourism into North Korea
- Chinese army colonel says avian flu is an American plot against China
- Those photos of young Kim Jong Un performing in 'Grease' are probably of his brother
- In sign of Chinese frustration with North Korea, 'Daily Show' clip mocking Kim racks up 2.8 million Chinese views
- Margaret Thatcher leaves complicated, sometimes bitter legacy in U.K.'s former colonies
- 'Irony Lady': How a Moscow propagandist gave Margaret Thatcher her famous nickname
- Thatcher and Reagan: Was their 'special relationship' partly a myth?
- Video: Early adapter Margaret Thatcher loved the Internet before it was cool
- Here's the new music video North Korea made for Kim Jong Un
- South Korea has already won
- S. Korean official predicted N. Korea urging embassy evacuations, said attack would follow
- Map pinpointing the seismic activity just detected along the Russia-North Korea border
- A gif that perfectly sums up North Korea's military capability to strike the U.S.
- Map: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach
- Here's the Japanese rock song so offensive it took North Korea's focus off U.S.
- Stunning before-and-after satellite photos show sectarian devastation in Burma
- U.S. Embassy in Cairo's controversial Twitter account deleted after one too many public spats
- Muslim Brotherhood tweets video alleging Jews control U.S. media, in apparent dig at Jon Stewart
- Here's video from inside the Kaesong Industrial Complex, which North Korea just closed
- Jon Stewart sparks Twitter fight between U.S. Embassy and Egyptian president's office
- Why North Korea's bomb-grade plutonium plant might be good news
- Watch Jon Stewart mock Egyptian President Morsi for arresting famous satirist Bassem Youssef
- Actually, the Kennedys have a storied history of diplomacy with Japan
- Video: Japanese April Fool's prank mocks Americans for being loud and lazy
- Is North Korea being more restrained than we think?
- Video of the Egyptian satirist arrested for 'belittling' the president, 'insulting Islam'
- North Korea appoints 'reformer' to top leadership post (but don't get your hopes up)
- Here's North Korea's official declaration of 'war'
- Texans mock Kim Jong Un's apparent plan to strike Austin
- North Korea almost certainly lacks basic technical capability to carry out its big war plan
- Video: What it's like to be an American reporter in Pakistan
- Photo from Kim Jong Un's war room reveals North Korea's 'U.S. mainland strike plan'
- A very good sign that North Korea is bluffing about war
- Video: Saudi comedian attempts a 'reverse cultural invasion' of America
- Mali's coup leader: 'Coup isn't a nice word'
- America's B-2 bomber 'practice run' may have also been about deterring South Korea
- Video: A Bahraini activist discusses her family's hunger strikes
- Video: Meet 'the Seinfeld of Saudi Arabia'
- Why I just got called out by North Korean state media
- Why now is the perfect time for a vacation to Iran (sort of)
- 6 crazy facts about the rebel leader who just took over the Central African Republic
- 9 questions about the Central African Republic you were too embarrassed to ask
- A photo that makes North Korea look a lot less scary
- Zainab's War: A mother risks everything for dignity
- A bailout for Cyprus, a geopolitical failure for Russia
- Australian newspaper runs greatest-ever front-page crocodile joke
- Yes, Netanyahu's apology to Turkey is a very big deal
- A revealing map of who wants to move to the U.S.
- Report: North Korea ordered its foreign diplomats to become drug dealers
- How Obama just reframed the Israel-Palestine conflict
- A surprising map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners
- Video: Obama teases Netanyahu about 'red lines'
- South Korea under cyber attack: Is North Korea secretly awesome at hacking?
- Was there a window of opportunity for success in Iraq?
- Video: Israel uses 'Golden Girls' theme to suggest that Obama still likes Netanyahu
- Russian analyst: Moscow believes Washington is gripped by 'strategic insanity'
- 11 people, institutions and countries insulted by Jordan's King Abdullah in The Atlantic
- Why was it so easy for a Chinese citizen to pose as a senior Communist Party official?
- Today's Reads: Riches in Australia, memory in Iraq
- Report offers clues to warlord's sudden surrender at U.S. Embassy
- A powerful video on war criminal Ntaganda, who just gave himself up to the U.S.
- Why did infamous war criminal Bosco Ntaganda just surrender at a U.S. embassy?
- Today's reads: photos of border crossings, guarded optimism on Iran
- Would Saddam Hussein have survived the Arab Spring?
- Syria's pro-Assad hackers infiltrate Human Rights Watch Web site and Twitter feed
- Video: Chinese police detain British reporter, unaware he's broadcasting live throughout
- North Korea officially denounces the 'reptile media' for 'jabbering'
- Pope Francis's defense against the worst allegation about his role in the dirty war
- Today's reads: Gay Argentines discuss Pope Francis
- The 'Alawite Lane'
- An alarming map of the global ivory trade that killed 17,000 elephants in one year
- Why some Argentines are skeptical of Pope Francis' role in the 'dirty war'
- Funny video explains what South Koreans think about the North
- Xi Jinping's election as president of China, as told in crazy statistics
- Argentina's Congress broke into a fight when Bergoglio was announced as pope
- Sorry, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not the first non-European pope
- New pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, rode the bus because he gave up his limo
- What name will the new pope choose? Some clues in this infographic
- North Korean propaganda video 'explains' what life is really like in Western countries
- Video: Papal candidate Luis Antonio Tagle has quite a singing voice
- Here's the trailer for 'Jews of Egypt,' which Egyptian state security has blocked from release
- Today's Reads: Eyes on Khatami, frustration in Wukan
- A puzzling photo from North Korea
- An interesting map of the countries that Americans love, and the ones they don't
- Chart: The curious history of papal elections
- Why North Korea loves to threaten World War III (but probably won't follow through)
- Today's Reads: South Africa's future, Obama in Israel
- The story behind the photo: Journalist's 11-month-old son killed in Gaza strikes
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