All Global News Blog
Is Kim Jong-un's mystery lady signaling a shift for North Korea?North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has recently been photographed with an unknown woman, causing international buzz.
From planning battles to organizing trash collection: Libyans settle into peaceA reporter who covered the battle of Tripoli returns for Libya's first election in decades to find a city that has achieved a tenuous peace.
Stopping to smell the grass in MongoliaMongolia is rich in copper, coal, and gold. But many Mongolians still see the country's true value in its endless grasslands.
Execution of Afghan woman occurred under Western nosesParwan Province, home of NATO's massive Bagram Air Field, had been thought secure. This weekend, it hosted a Taliban-style public execution of a woman for adultery.
London's Shard: architectural marvel or enormous salt shaker?Built with Qatari funding and sniffed at by Prince Charles, the new skyscraper has 11,000 glass panels equal to eight soccer fields.
- Reporters on the Job: On the hunt for disappeared Chinese knockoffs
Staff writer Peter Ford questions a Chinese stallholder about why knockoffs went missing from a market in Beijing, when a man barrels up to him to aggressively video his interview.
British deaths in Afghanistan: How the war has fallen out at homeStephen Lennon explains to Monitor reporter, Ben Arnoldy, how he co-founded the English Defence League in the wake of an Afghan war protest.
Mexicans at polls talk of jobs, drug violenceMexico's presidential election today is a choice between four candidates – and not voting at all.
After Aung San Suu Kyi, girl band symbolizes a changing Myanmar?Since Myanmar ended military rule, getting an interview with Aung San Suu Kyi has been a of rite-of-passage for foreign journalists. But with reforms come new items on journalist's checklist.
Pakistan's Texas-sized problemsDespite the some cultural overlaps, the American and Pakistani paths are parting ways.
Top Pakistani and US generals meet as analysts question the value of military talksGen. John Allen, commander of US troops in Afghanistan, is visiting Pakistan's military chief. Do these sorts of talks undermine America's professed goal of strengthening Pakistan's civilian government?
UK's thoroughly modern royals? Not exactly. Commoner Kate has to curtsy.The British monarchy has raised eyebrows by updating a rulebook to include guidelines on how the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, who has no royal blood, must acknowledge the "blood princesses."
Where the US and Pakistan are working togetherThe $75 million USAID Teacher Education Project alone won't patch the US and Pakistan governmental relationship. But education projects are one way to maintain people-to-people relations.
Is China really the world's top economy? Much of the world thinks soBut much of the world would be wrong, according to recent study. China still lags far behind the US in GDP and personal wealth.
Space launch: One small step for China, one giant opportunity for investorsAs China prepares to launch its first manned space flight in four years, Chinese stock prices are going up.
Oil prices rise, drop, and rise again. Buckle up, Earth.Predicting global oil prices is not easy. Prices have more to do with global politics -- and supply and demand -- than with politicians, but voters take out their anger on the leaders they can reach.
USAID cuts funding for Elmo on Pakistan TVThe US cut $20 million for Pakistani version of Sesame Street. USAID alleges fraud against the show's producers, but the cutbacks come as the US is pulling back foreign aid.
NATO will exit Afghanistan as Soviets did, through Central AsiaNATO signs deals with Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan to truck its military supplies from Afghan war out through Central Asia, giving it options instead of closed Pakistan route.
China to US embassy: Stop telling people how bad the air is in Beijing.Air quality in Beijing is notorious for being 'crazy bad.' The US Embassy in Beijing started tweeting air quality reports, but now China says it's unfair to judge it by international standards.
Tiananmen anniversary keeps Chinese censors on edgeBeijing still shows extreme sensitivity to the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. China's version of Twitter is censoring everything from today's date to the word 'candle.'
