Syrian military police officers fired on Islamist inmates during a riot at a prison outside Damascus.

The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.

As Taiwan’s athletes prepare for the Olympics, its officials fear that China will use the Games for political purposes.

Iran’s nuclear policy has not changed, an Iranian government spokesman said, confirming that Iran would not comply with Security Council resolutions.

A key regional party in India said that it backed the government over a controversial nuclear energy agreement with the United States.

Suspected terrorists in Thailand’s restive south shot up a bustling cafe, killing three customers, police said.

Major League Baseball, hoping to build Chinese interest in the sport, is providing coaches for the national team.

Ahmed Rashid is a prolific chronicler of Afghanistan, Central Asia and his homeland of Pakistan, places that Western writers have often found difficult to gain access to.

Farm leaders said they were prepared to renew blockades of major highways and cut off exports of grains if the measure was approved.

The American military said that its airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan hit two vehicles carrying insurgents, while a provincial governor said that civilians had been killed.

A firefight between Georgian troops and soldiers from the separatist province of South Ossetia left two people dead and at least 11 wounded, a spokeswoman for the separatist government said.

Ray Lewis, a deputy mayor of London, resigned, citing pressure from news media reports on accusations of past sexual and financial misconduct.

North Korea said it would move to the next phase of the denuclearization process only when it has been awarded all the energy and political benefits it had been promised.

Britain’s High Court ruled that Pringles are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to the value-added tax.

The authorities imposed a curfew after more violence erupted among Hindus, Muslims and the police over a land dispute involving a Hindu shrine in India-controlled Kashmir.

Poland rejected as insufficient an American offer to enhance its air defenses in return for basing a missile-shield complex on its territory.

Howard Shore’s opera “The Fly” had its world premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with David Cronenberg directing.

When Dominique O. Rosales takes the stage in front of the Brandenburg Gate with the other members of the Ailey II dance company, it will mark the end of an unlikely round-trip journey.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan’s nuclear program, said that his country gave centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army.

Officials also denied that a ransom was paid for the release of hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.