Wu Ping reports. Young Chinese associate world travel with self-discovery, romantic encounters and bourgeois sentiment. But 81 years ago, 22-year-old Pan Deming - aka Poon Tuck-ming - embarked on a journey that was even more enthralling than Jules Verne's ...

BANGKOK — World stock markets were mixed Monday as fears of a Greek ... "We hit 21,000 and now there is profit-taking, because there is still potential bad news from Greece," said Jackson Wong, vice president at Tanrich Securities in Hong ...

Jean took the gold medal, Liam McFarlane claimed silver and Charles Hamelin won the bronze. “This is our second podium sweep of the World Cup season. It goes to show the depth of the Canadian team,” Jean, of Lachenaie, Que., said after posting a time ...

JERUSALEM — For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent — an action that many ...

In a look around the world, the striking characteristic is the number of crises awaiting resolution. Their outcomes seem almost artificially suspended, and their interactions and their ultimate effects on the world are major question marks.